Thomas Taylor wrote:
The "wifi button" seems to be somwwhat hardware dependent. On my Dell Studio 1745 laptop, which has Intel 'PRO/Wireless 5100AGN Network Connection' card, the turn-off apparently toggles the hardware itself. Once off it stays off until I reboot into windows and reset it.
I've tried startuo mode in hotplug, auto, manual, and off but none of them will turn the wifi back on. Also, running rcnetwork restart goes through the motions but doesn't turn it back on.
I had a similar problem on my Samsung P-560. Just, I don't have windows ;^> But you normally don't need windows to reset it, the radio kill switch is mapped to the /sys virtual file system. Check out /sys/class/rfkill/*/state. There might be several rfkill?? directories for different devices (wlan, bluetooth...). Pick the proper one. An echo 1 > /sys/class/rfkill/<unit>/state should enable it and then you can 'ifup' the device... Pit -- Dr. Peter "Pit" Suetterlin http://www.astro.su.se/~pit Institute for Solar Physics Tel.: +34 922 405 590 (Spain) P.Suetterlin@royac.iac.es +46 8 5537 8507 (Sweden) Peter.Suetterlin@astro.su.se -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org