ipw2200 kill switch

Some older laptops w/ an ipw2200 wireless adapter have hardware buttons to enable or disable the wireless connection. This button does not work by default in a free operating system, resulting in a non-working wireless adapter. A while ago, one could manually compile the acerhk.ko kernel module for 2.6 kernels to get around the issue, but since I want to use newer kernels, I had to take a different path to achieve connectivity:

• remove mini-pci wireless adapter
• identify PIN13 (which is PIN7 on the frontside)
• use tesa stripe or similar to isolate and disable the pin

Schematic drawing:

Frontside View of mini-PCI adapter PINs: 
L       g                 R
   | |  a  | | | | | |x| <-- diz is it! 
    1   p   2 3 4 5 6 7

Afterwards, the adapter will no longer be disabled, because the kill switch will naturally be turned off if the PIN is not connected (you can verify this by using rfkill list)