Please help????

[moonrise333]

Ok, so I'm a total noob when it comes to computers so if you please speak english, I'd be really grateful! I run a HP G60-127NR laptop and my wireless was working beautifully as of 30 minutes ago. But my finger accidently hit the wireless button and the wireless was disabled. I've tried everything from network tools to hitting the wireless icon on the top toolbar. However, when I right click the icon, the option for enabling wireless is blacked out. I've also tried frantically hitting the wireless button on my laptop over and over again to no avail. Please help!!! :'(

[dheerajrav]

Go to System->Administration->Additional Drivers and see if the wireless propriety driver is enabled

[moonrise333]

It said "no proprietary drivers are in use on this system."

[Rubi1200]

Did you try restarting?

Also, when you do run this command in the terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal):

ifconfig

[moonrise333]

I've tried restarting numerous times and I just typed in that code. I'm on my phone right now and don't have any computers running internet. I'm desperate. what do I do next?

[moonrise333]

Bump

[moonrise333]

I've been googling around and it said to type in "iwconfig" and I got
Lo: no wireless extensions
Eth0: no wireless extensions
Wlan0: IEEE 802.llabgn ESSID: off/any
Mode:managed access point:not-associated tx-power = off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr: off Fragment thr: off
Power management: off
then I typed in "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" and it said "operation not possible due to RF-kill"

Does that help at all??

[TBABill]

Can you try

sudo rfkill unblock all

[moonrise333]

Just tried it and it didn't work.

[TBABill]

There has to be a way to turn the wireless device back on again. The output of iwconfig shows it as off. Do you have a Fn (function) key combo that turns it back on? Do you have a book to look that up in if it's not easy to identify on the keyboard? My Dell, for example, just requires you to hit F2 and it turns it on and off.