Bug#525960: firmware-iwlwifi: iwl4965 not working on startup, works after suspend
Package: firmware-iwlwifi
Version: 0.16
Severity: important
After starting up the system, these messages are shown via dmesg:
[ 40.776040] iwl4965: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[ 40.776044] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to work.
[ 42.568509] iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL
wakes up NIC
[ 42.579368] iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL
wakes up NIC
[ 42.847913] iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL
wakes up NIC
[ 42.859908] iwl4965: WARNING: Requesting MAC access during RFKILL
wakes up NIC
....
If I suspend the system and wake it up again, the wireless then works
fine.
[ 110.592039] iwl4965 0000:07:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
.....
[ 141.523901] wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
[ 141.523901] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:18:4d:82:00:66
[ 141.525821] wlan0: RX authentication from 00:18:4d:82:00:66 (alg=0
transaction=2 status=0)
[ 141.525830] wlan0: authenticated
[ 141.525837] wlan0: associate with AP 00:18:4d:82:00:66
[ 141.530236] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:18:4d:82:00:66 (capab=0x431
status=0 aid=1)
[ 141.530236] wlan0: associated
[ 141.530236] wlan0: switched to short barker preamble
(BSSID=00:18:4d:82:00:66)
[ 141.546225] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
firmware-iwlwifi depends on no packages.
firmware-iwlwifi recommends no packages.
Versions of packages firmware-iwlwifi suggests:
ii initramfs-tools 0.93.2 tools for generating an initramfs
ii linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 [lin 2.6.26-15 Linux 2.6.26 image on PPro/Celeron
-- no debconf information
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