Comment 9 for bug 247489

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Mediazinmann (mk-klenk) wrote : Re: 8.10: Intrepid, Hardy: On an Acer Travelmate 6292, WLAN is dysfunctional

Seems I was wrong...
having two ways for activating wlan:
1. soft-on/off via fn+F5 (wlan, wlan+blue, blue, none)
2. hardware switch (wlan+blue on/off)

while switching on and off often (too fast) via "soft"-off/on wlan doesn't come up again. Only a HW-Reset via hw-switch brings back functionality. Using soft-switch slowly doesn't affect wlan-disfunction

Default: wlan + bluetooth is enabled at startup.

syslog after reset:
Nov 13 20:15:41 Oscar kernel: [ 3094.003741] iwlagn: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Nov 13 20:15:41 Oscar kernel: [ 3094.003744] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
Nov 13 20:15:58 Oscar kernel: [ 3110.979527] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:radio
Nov 13 20:15:58 Oscar kernel: [ 3110.979576] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:assoc
Nov 13 20:15:58 Oscar kernel: [ 3110.979676] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:RX
Nov 13 20:15:58 Oscar kernel: [ 3110.979723] Registered led device: iwl-phy0:TX
Nov 13 20:15:58 Oscar kernel: [ 3110.979773] iwlagn: TX Power requested while scanning!
Nov 13 20:15:58 Oscar kernel: [ 3111.920941] wlan0: deauthenticated
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