Wireless switch and hibernate

[O. Sinclair]

Gianluca Cerminara wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I installed feisty on my Dell 6400/1505 (with NVidia).
> Almost everything is working out of the box. One of the few problems I 
> have is related to the hibernation and the wireless switch.
> On this laptop the wifi card (Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG) can be 
> switched on/off with the keys Fn+F2.
> Once I hibernate the laptop with the wifi card off I'm not able anymore 
> to switch the network card on.
> Any suggestion?
> Does anybody know how this kind of switches are handled...I guess I only 
> have to plug/unplug the right kernel module each time I suspend....
> I hope that dell will solve these kind of problems publishing somewhere 
> the method...since, if I understood it correctly, this is one of the 
> models shipped with ubuntu.
Read through this thread, there is a piece on this problem somewhere;
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=399913

I get this problem too but normally manage to get things working by 
fiddling with Knetworkmanager, for example remove the network you 
connected to and then reconnect "fresh".

Sinclair