Comment 31 for bug 204378

I agree Steve, and so does some other people :-) found these now (didn't know about rf_kill before I ran into these problems):

http://groups.google.se/group/linux.kernel/browse_thread/thread/3dbe888c7f54a1cd
http://www.intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1606

Thank you all for the help, Nicolò and Steve; I'm hugely impressed by your responsiveness and willingness to assist.