I think this might also be important. The network is on (and working).
Disabling it with the switch gives me this in /var/log/messages

Oct 29 19:59:23 ni-laptop kernel: [  660.737921] iwl3945: Radio Frequency Kill 
Switch is On:
Oct 29 19:59:23 ni-laptop kernel: [  660.737927] Kill switch must be turned off 
for wireless networking to work.
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [  664.369445] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting 
MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [  664.419347] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting 
MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [  664.479232] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting 
MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [  664.643005] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting 
MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [  664.659957] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT 
A disabled
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [  664.808259] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, 
address 4

Turning it on again:

Oct 29 20:00:39 ni-laptop kernel: [  736.604092] usb 1-1: new full speed USB 
device using uhci_hcd and address 5
Oct 29 20:00:39 ni-laptop kernel: [  736.816263] usb 1-1: configuration #1 
chosen from 1 choice

KNetworkManager still claims that is it disabled.

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Switch for wireless LAN doesn't work
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