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Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:21:12 -0700
From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
To: "George Fong" <george@lateralplains.com>
Subject: Re: Problem making compat-wireless-2.6
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On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 6:33 PM, George Fong <george@lateralplains.com> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> Dang :-) This was the fix.
>
>> Try editing drivers/net/wireless/b43/rfkill.c, and replacing
>> RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED with RFKILL_STATE_ON and
>> RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED with RFKILL_STATE_OFF. Looks like rfkill is
>> not part of the compat package, and no work has been done to match
>> compat-wireless to older RFKILLs.
>
> Thank you for such prompt responses. Although I did this for the b43 driver, I
> ended up progressively having to do the same fix for the drivers for a couple
> more, ie iwlwifi and rxt200
>
> I am not concerned about the rxt200 but the driver I was interested in was the
> iwl4965, so I am not sure that by changing the settings on iwl-rfkill.c I
> have affected the driver I am using ....
>
>
> Having said that... the email is brought to you courtesy of the iwl9645 wifi
> device .. which has got to be a Good Thing ;-)
>
> Agree about the proper way of doing things - should really install a newer
> kernel, but I am strapped into an nVidia graphics card on my laptop and the
> livna drivers keep pace well but I think I risk breaking these at the moment
> with the newer kernel.
>
> Thank you all for your prompt responses and asistance... on a weekend no
> less :-) I'll monitor progress and contribute whatever little I can as I get
> this new laptop settled.

I've fixed this in compat-wireless, it should now compile fine for
kernels <= 2.6.26.

  Luis