Bug 367902

Summary:	Change of IWL 4965 radio killswitch status is not recognized
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Jan Ritzerfeld <suse>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Helmut Schaa <hschaa>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	behlert
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
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Attachments:	Log of NN

Description Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-03-06 18:47:40 UTC

Created attachment 199272 [details]
Log of NN 

I am using iwlwifi-kmp-default-1.2.24_2.6.22.17_0.1-26.1 of http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/driver:/wireless/openSUSE_10.3_update/ because of Bug 350601.

So, at 18:34, I booted with the radio killswitch turned on, that is, the wireless network is disabled. Everything works fine and the wired network is used.
At 20:08, I tried to switch to wireless LAN by re-enabling it via the radio
killswitch (that is, turning the latter off) and then disconnecting the wired LAN. However, NN or HAL insisted in the killswitch being in its old position, thus, overriding my request to enable the wireless network.
I will attach the log of the situationd described above.


This also happens when I boot with the radio killswitch turned off and than enable it, thus, disabling the wireless network. NN or HAL do indeed notice that I disabled the network via the radio killswitch, hence, deactivating wlan0. But they do not get it, when I re-enable the killswitch again. There are simply no entries in the log, so I cannot attach it.

In both situations, re-starting NN does not help. Before and after the re-start, wlan0 is down:
karl:~ # iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

"rmmod iwl4965" and then "modprobe iwl4965" re-enables the wireless network again.

Comment 1 Helmut Schaa 2008-03-06 19:31:50 UTC

Thanks Jan.

Please try if it is sufficient to run "ifconfig wlan0 up" instead of rmmod and modprobe.

Comment 2 Jan Ritzerfeld 2008-03-06 20:28:08 UTC

Yes, "ifconfig wlan0 up" is indeed sufficient. The correct state of the killswitch is then detected and NN automatically re-connects via the wireless network.

Comment 4 Helmut Schaa 2008-06-18 15:56:50 UTC

Duplicate of #393441.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 393441 ***