On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Fred Crowson <fred.crow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Misc@ > > I have a Lenovo S10-3 ideapad notebook, but I am unable to configure > the athn0 interface, if I try a scan, or try to configure the > interface I get the following messages: > > Oct 16 15:49:51 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch > Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 > Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch > Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 > Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: radio is disabled by hardware switch > Oct 16 15:49:52 s3 /bsd: athn0: unable to reset hardware; reset status 1 > > There is a switch on the side of the notebook - but it has no effect > the same is true of the Fn+F5 key sequence. > > The wifi led is lit initially when the notebook is booted, but when it > gets to approximately the acpibat0 line on boot the led goes off and > stays off.
Do You have any output on switching the hardware switch? It seems You have softkill. Try booting any linux livecd and play around rfkill utility. -- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
