Bug#503688: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686: iwl3945 is loaded with rf_kill switch on and cannot be switched off

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:57:52AM -0400, Arnout Boelens wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-1-686
> Version: 2.6.26-9
> Severity: normal
> 
> When booting linux-image-2.6.26-1-686 I cannot get the rf_kill switch on the
> iwl3945 driver disabled. When I do a 'echo -n "0" >
> /sys/class/net/eth2/device/rf_kill', rf_kill keeps its value of 2. Everything
> works fine under linux-image-2.6.25-2-686. 

This was fixed in 80fcc9e28cf3a209fbfb39a7bbddc313c59c7424, so it'll appear in
2.6.28

Backporting it will pull in several other iwlwifi patches, though.

Cheers,
        Moritz