[ltp] IPW2100: how power on?

[Jeffrey L. Taylor]

Quoting Carl-Fredrik Enell <carl-fredrik.enell@sgo.fi>:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I have no luck with the ipw2100 drivers of versions >0.60. I get no
> contact and seemingly it is because the driver doesn't anymore switch on the
> transmitter of the network adapter.
> 
> # iwconfig
>  ...
> eth1      unassociated  ESSID:"... my neteork"  Nickname:"ipw2100"
>           Mode:Managed  Channel=0  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
>           Bit Rate=0 kb/s   Tx-Power:off
> 
> I cannot switch on the power, I tried both 
> echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/ (the device) /rf_kill and 
> iwconfig txpower ...
> with different options and different versions of iwconfig.
> 
> What is wrong?
> 

Possibly the driver's status reporting code.  I am running 0.60 fine
and it also reports Tx-Power:off.  Try posting this on the ipw2100
e-mail list.  Or as a bug on SourceForge.

HTH,
  Jeffrey