Realtek RTL8187 wireless usb not working on Lucid 10.04 ( Hard blocked )

[Dearhell]

So I have a dell laptop and a Realtek RTL8187 device.

The device it's properly recognized and iwlist scan even list the networks, but the "activate wifi network" on the network manager on right-top of the screen it's grey and therefore cannot be activated.

This seems to be the problem ( rfkill list ouput ):

1: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

So I've tried rmmod dell_laptop but still the same output with rfkill list.

My dell laptop doesn't have any button to stop or start the wifi ( Dell Inspiron 9300 ).

This same device worked fine with Ubuntu 9.10, stopped working after upgrade to Lucid 10.04

[Dearhell]

Bump!

[chili555]

Let's have a look at:

lsmod
iwconfig

Thanks.

[chili555]

My dell laptop doesn't have any button to stop or start the wifi ( Dell Inspiron 9300 ).

When you press Fn+F2, does rfkill change? Please do:

sudo tail -f /var/log/messages

Leave it open as you press the key combination. Does the kernel recognize the buttons at all?

[Dearhell]

When you press Fn+F2, does rfkill change?

That did the trick, thanks! =D>

[pejal1312]

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"STREAMYX@APB"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: D8:5D:4C:E6:C1:2E
Bit Rate=1 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff
Link Quality=30/70 Signal level=-80 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

wlan1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thrff Fragment thrff
Power Managementff

@ubuntu:~$ sudo tail -f /var/log/messages[sudo] password for cipher:
Dec 10 15:56:56 ubuntu kernel: [ 13.680420] b43 ssb0:0: firmware: requesting b43/lp0bsinitvals15.fw
Dec 10 15:56:56 ubuntu kernel: [ 13.824440] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 410.2160 (2007-05-26 15:32:10)
Dec 10 15:56:56 ubuntu kernel: [ 13.903424] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
Dec 10 15:57:01 ubuntu kernel: [ 19.380635] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
Dec 10 15:57:01 ubuntu kernel: [ 19.401090] r8169: eth0: link up
Dec 10 15:57:01 ubuntu kernel: [ 19.401104] r8169: eth0: link up
Dec 10 15:57:03 ubuntu kernel: [ 20.491355] hda-intel: IRQ timing workaround is activated for card #1. Suggest a bigger bdl_pos_adj.
Dec 10 15:57:05 ubuntu kernel: [ 23.346672] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan1: link is not ready
Dec 10 15:57:11 ubuntu pulseaudio[1476]: ratelimit.c: 13 events suppressed
Dec 10 15:57:13 ubuntu kernel: [ 31.085146] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready

model hornettek usb dongle ht-2223bk

can anyone help me??

[grahammechanical]

You have posted a new question on an old thread that should have been marked as solved.

From the information that you have provided you have 2 wlan. And wlan0 is connecting to a router/modem, that has the connection name or ESSID of STREAMYX@APB.

Note also the comment:

Dec 10 15:57:01 ubuntu kernel: [ 19.380635] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

and now this comment:

Dec 10 15:57:13 ubuntu kernel: [ 31.085146] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready

What are you doing to try to connect? And are you using the wireless adapter/card/device that is connected to the modem? Are you trying to use wlan1 when you should be trying to use wlan0?

These are just some questions that I would ask myself.

Regards.