Wireless switch and hibernate

[Gianluca Cerminara]

O. Sinclair wrote:
> 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
> 


Thanks. But my problem is somehow different: once I restore from 
hibernation I cannot use anymore the wireless switch: either it does 
nothing or it makes the system crash.

Anybody has any hint?
Is the switch handled by the card driver?
Thanks,
	G