Re: wireless suddenly not working (iwl4965)

Peter Smerdon wrote:

I don't recall doing anything special during installation to get
wireless working, it worked right out of the box.

Yours should...

modules loaded are:
iwl4965 113512 0
...
So now all of a sudden I have no wlan0 device.
here is some dmesg output:
...
[ 1024.984961] iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill switch

Ah-hah! A clue!!! You might try turning on the radio :-)

It's impossible to say exactly how you'd do that - but there should be
either a key-combo (Dells often used <fn>-F2) or a hardware switch (my
damned HP has a slider on the front, where when I actually have my laptop
in my lap, it's _guaranteed_ to catch on my belt buckle and turn itself
off). I think there's an iwconfig option, too, but that won't help if the
hardware switch is exclusive.
--
derek


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