Eric,
Have you checked your BIOS settings? I had a similar issue with my Dell
Laptop and the problem turned out to be that the card was disabled in
the laptop's BIOS.
Mike
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
Hi guys & girls,
problem: HP Laptop with IPW2200 WiFi card and special button to
switch the WiFi on or off, system is Ubuntu 5.10
The card itself is recognized (no suprise there), but the damn
thing is turned off, pressing the button won't turn it on either
(/sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/*/rf_kill stays at the same value).
Unfortunately, it's not possible to just echo 0 > .../rf_kill to
turn the thing on (permission denied even for root on that HP,
here on my box - where the button works - it was allowed but had
no effect).
iwconfig power seems to be only for managing the powersave-states,
not to turn the thing on or off.
Googling didn't really help so far, I checked the
ipw2100.sf.net,
ipw2200.sf.net and
rfswitch.sf.net pages.
Any ideas?
Greetings & TIA, Eric
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