On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Fred Crowson <fred.crowson@gmail.com> wrote:
quoted text > Hi Misc@
>
> I have a Lenovo S10-3 ideapad notebook, but I am unable to configure
> the athn0 interface, if I try a scan, or try to configure the
> interface I get the following messages:
>
> Oct 16 15:49:51 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch
> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1
> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch
> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1
> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch
> Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1
>
> There is a switch on the side of the notebook - but it has no effect
> the same is true of the Fn+F5 key sequence.
>
> The wifi led is lit initially when the notebook is booted, but when it
> gets to approximately the acpibat0 line on boot the led goes off and
> stays off.
Do You have any output on switching the hardware switch?
It seems You have softkill. Try booting any linux livecd and play
around rfkill utility.
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Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
