wpi: "Radio transmitter is turned off"

[Stacey Roberts]

Hi Bill!
  

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, Bill Moran wrote:

> In response to Benjamin Close <Benjamin.Close at clearchain.com>:
> 
> > Arne Schwabe wrote:
> > > Bill Moran schrieb:
> > >> I'm running 7 on an IBM Lenovo T61.
> > >>
> > >> I'm having some weirdness with the 802.11 card.  It's a Intel Pro
> > >> 3945ABG, which appears to be supported by the wpi driver.  Rebuilding
> > >> the kernel with wpi support causes the NIC to be detected and a
> > >> wpi0 interface is created, but when I do "ifconfig wpi0 up" I get
> > >> a message that the radio transmitter is turned off.
> > >>
> > >> ?
> > >>
> > >> I've searched through the BIOS and the card is enabled everywhere I can
> > >> find.  Perusing both the ifconfig and the wpi man page hasn't clued me
> > >> in to what I can do to turn the radio on.  My google searches have
> > >> turned up nothing but pointers to the wpi driver source code.
> > >>
> > >> Any advice/pointers will be welcome at this stage. :)
> > >>
> > >>   
> > > Only to rule out the obvious. Is the wlan switch on your notebook in 
> > > the right position?
> >
> Nice :)

So was this your problem?

I have the same notebook and have done the same procedure as you - enabling the hardware in
the kernel, but the switch on the front of the laptop is set to "On" - always..,

However, although ifconfig show the card okay:

$ ifconfig wpi0
wpi0: flags=8803<UP,BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:1c:bf:5f:57:6f
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
        status: no carrier
        ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 50 bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bintval 0
$

I get the following each time I try to ifconfig wpi0 up:

Feb  9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw
Feb  9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw'
Feb  9 17:30:30 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver
Feb  9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: firmware_get: failed to load firmware image wpifw
Feb  9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: could not load firmware image 'wpifw'
Feb  9 17:30:55 ibm-t61p kernel: wpi0: A problem occurred loading the firmware to the driver

Thanks.

Regards,

S Roberts

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