Comment 34 for bug 229611

I'm running in a similar problem with that card on Ubuntu 8.10 amd64. I have found a workaround after reading all the posts in this bug and the related ones. Basically I got the wifi card disabled after startup and the kill switch on the pc (a hp nc8430) doesn't turn it on. However to my surprise I found that rmmod iwl3945 turns it on. Shouldn't have it got the module off the kernel and made the card definitely unusable?

Things get complicated after suspending the pc. The general idea is that the card stays on after the resume but the kill switch fails to turn it on after I switch it off for the first time but I still didn't have time to test all the combinations of events.

I attach a file with the log of dmesg and the commands I gave from the console.

An important note: I'm booting Ubuntu with this /etc/modprobe.d/iwl3945

alias wlan0 iwl3945
options iwl3945 disable_hw_scan=1

I don't know exactly what that does (I only started playing with modules today after reading your posts) but if there is anything I can do to sort out this bug, just tell me how I can help.

Paolo