Comment 1 for bug 290820

I think this might also be important. The network is on (and working). Disabling it with the switch gives me this in /var/log/messages

Oct 29 19:59:23 ni-laptop kernel: [ 660.737921] iwl3945: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
Oct 29 19:59:23 ni-laptop kernel: [ 660.737927] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [ 664.369445] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [ 664.419347] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [ 664.479232] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [ 664.643005] iwl3945: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL wakes up NIC
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [ 664.659957] iwl3945 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
Oct 29 19:59:27 ni-laptop kernel: [ 664.808259] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 4

Turning it on again:

Oct 29 20:00:39 ni-laptop kernel: [ 736.604092] usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
Oct 29 20:00:39 ni-laptop kernel: [ 736.816263] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

KNetworkManager still claims that is it disabled.