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    Thumbs up Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by L33T17 View Post
    Wow thanks man! This fixed it for me!
    of all the tiresome efforts, this one just did the wonder..!
    i believe in Ubuntu!!!
    UBUNTU EASY INSTALL 1.1: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ubuntu...53334814714818

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    excellent, that worked for me too:
    sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop

    rfkill was showing that I had a Hardware switch off, but the hardware switch (Fn+F2) wasn't working until I disabled dell-laptop.

    Thanks Chili!

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Hi guys,

    Just installed 11.04 this afternoon on an old HP laptop, same issue, I will try that command you tried for Dell to see if it works on HP, otherwise, I will reinstall 10

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by Rainbow_Rising View Post
    Hi guys,

    Just installed 11.04 this afternoon on an old HP laptop, same issue, I will try that command you tried for Dell to see if it works on HP, otherwise, I will reinstall 10


    You might save yourself some time and look ( and paste here) at the output of

    rfkill list all

    If no blocks are shown the problem is probably something else.

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Here is a simple solution that *did* work for me on HP with Broadcom

    as root:

    1. modprobe broadcom
    2. rfkill block all
    3. rfkill unblock all

    my wireless connection is now working fine again
    Last edited by wvargas; August 2nd, 2011 at 10:04 PM.

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    I faced a similar problem of an abrupt wireless disconnection on a Dell XPS 15 which I bought a couple of days back and as suggested did :
    rmmod -f dell-laptop
    sudo rfkill unblock

    This did not fix the problem, but a simple <fn>-F2 (the hardware switch for the laptop) brought back the wireless.

    Since dell-laptop was not at fault in my case, I would like to add it back. However, I do not know how to do this and could not get any clear answer from googling the web.

    Would greatly appreciate if someone could shed some light on this. Though I have been an ubuntu user for 2-3 years, I am not at all familiar with the kernel and commands to manipulate it.

    Thanks in anticipation.
    Last edited by dmdip; August 3rd, 2011 at 09:54 AM.

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by dmdip View Post
    I faced a similar problem of an abrupt wireless disconnection on a Dell XPS 15 which I bought a couple of days back and as suggested did :
    rmmod -f dell-laptop
    sudo rfkill unblock

    This did not fix the problem, but a simple <fn>-F2 (the hardware switch for the laptop) brought back the wireless.

    Since dell-laptop was not at fault in my case, I would like to add it back. However, I do not know how to do this and could not get any clear answer from googling the web.

    Would greatly appreciate if someone could shed some light on this. Though I have been an ubuntu user for 2-3 years, I am not at all familiar with the kernel and commands to manipulate it.

    Thanks in anticipation.


    If all you did was

    rmmod -f dell-laptop
    sudo rfkill unblock

    and did not do the step of blacklisting the module, rebooting should add it back in with no additional effort required.

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    It is indeed back - thanks very much!

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    Quote Originally Posted by bkratz View Post
    If all you did was

    rmmod -f dell-laptop
    sudo rfkill unblock

    and did not do the step of blacklisting the module, rebooting should add it back in with no additional effort required.

    It is indeed back! Thanks very much!

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    Re: wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

    edit: ok, its not soft or hard blocked, but it still wont show my router... its 2WIRE, but it cant find it for some reason....
    Last edited by mark5656; August 6th, 2011 at 01:37 AM.

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