[ltp] Wireless hardware radio switch does not work on X60s

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 31 May 2007, Guillermo Juárez wrote:
> I have a x60s right here and I can assure that the kill swictch works
> fine at least with the 2.6.20 kernel.
> 
> On the other hand, if I switch off wireless, when I switch it on it
> tries to use the same ssid. That's a problems, since sometimes I
> switch it off and go somewhere else. The only solution to this problem
> is unloading the ipw3945 modules and loading it back.

On an Intel card correctly installed, yes, any proper kill switch will
*always* work, since they (AFAIK) support the thing in *hardware* like a
proper radio should.

And of course it will try to use the same SSID, the switch only
enables/disables the RF part, it doesn't reset the interface in the kernel
or anything like that.  You could complain to the ipw3945 developers that
they should force an disassociate when the radio is killed, though.

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  Henrique Holschuh