wireless is disabled by hardware switch - natty 11.04

[montydhanjal]

With due respect to my colleagues, I think it's due to a poor implemetation of the module dell-laptop. Please do:

lsmod | grep dell

If dell-laptop is loaded, remove it:

sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all

Is your wireless working now? If so, we'll need to blacklist dell-laptop.

thank you very much. It worked for me

[matheusrotta]

I have 11.04 as well.
You see, every computer has a wireless switch, but some of them have it as a button, others have shortcuts on the keyboard. The shortcut for wireless connection can usually be seen on your computer manual. I have an Acer and its shortcut is FN+F3.
You should try finding it there. If the switch is not the problem then you should continue trying rfkill or other commands on the terminal. But I'm new to Ubuntu so I can't help you with that.

[huiejr]

This is what I had to do to get my dell studio 1537 working:


plug network cable into wireless router to gain network access


list hardware
lspci -vnn | grep 14e4


I was able to tell that my hardware was supported by the b43-fwcutter package. Learned this at the following site:


http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43


Install b43-fwcutter package
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter


then I had to go to the SYSTEM SETTINGS > HARDWARE > ADDITIONAL DRIVERS
and activate the driver. REBOOT.


rfkill list


0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no


lsmod | grep dell
dell_wmi 12681 0
sparse_keymap 13898 1 dell_wmi
dell_laptop 13827 0
dcdbas 14438 1 dell_laptop


sudo rmmod -f dell_laptop


sudo rfkill unblock all

rfkill list
1: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no


It works and thanks to the posters on this thread

And don't forget to blacklist dell-laptop as mentioned earlier thread.

[Ubuntiac]

This is driving me natty! er Batty!

Dell 1501 + Kubuntu natty + maverick version of bcmwl-kernel-source installed.

I've unblacklisted bcm43xx in blacklist.conf. Dell_laptop and dell-wmi are running at startup.

sudo rfkill list says both hardware and software locked on dell-wifi
if I do sudo rmmod dell_laptop I get a notification "Wireless activated" and rfkill list returns nothing. Unfortunately although I am able to tick wireless, no wireless networks show up and the wifi light doesn't turn on, even if I fn+f2.

With the current version of bcm-kernel-source sudo rfkill list returns nothing. Killing dell_laptop still shows the same activation message, but there is no checkbox to turn on wirless.

Halp!

[chili555]

I've unblacklisted bcm43xx in blacklist.conf.

That has nothing to do with anything. Please add to the blacklist.conf file:

blacklist dell-laptop

Reboot and let us see:

rfkill list all
iwconfig

Thanks.

[Gordon D]

None of the suggested solutions above worked for me. Eventually downgraded bcmwl-kernel-source to previous release as per bug below:-

Reply #36 in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...wl/+bug/732677 worked for me.

Dell Latitude D420


lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net

09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1600] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:01d6]
	Kernel driver in use: tg3
--
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11a/b/g [14e4:4312] (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1490 Dual Band WLAN Mini-Card [1028:0007]
	Kernel driver in use: wl

Hope this helps

[By-Tor66]

With due respect to my colleagues, I think it's due to a poor implemetation of the module dell-laptop. Please do:

lsmod | grep dell

If dell-laptop is loaded, remove it:

sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all

Is your wireless working now? If so, we'll need to blacklist dell-laptop.

Chili this brought my wifi light on, but still no connection. I have a dell inspiron 700m with a broadcom 4306 wireless apadter.

[chili555]

Chili this brought my wifi light on, but still no connection. I have a dell inspiron 700m with a broadcom 4306 wireless apadter.

This thread is a bit long in the tooth. Would you please start your own new thread? Post:

lspci -nn | grep 0280
dmesg | grep b43

Leave a link here and I'll be right there.

[lee_can]

HI all,
I'm running natty 11.04 on lenovo G560 but unfortunately wireless is not working properly as the wireless is disable by hardware switch.
I have tried all the posts mentioned here, but i didn't know how to fix this issue.
Can anyone help please?

for your information, please find below in case helps to identify my problem.

e33@e33-G560:~$ uname -a
Linux e33-G560 2.6.38-11-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 12 21:17:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
e33@e33-G560:~$

e33@e33-G560:~$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Pe33@e33-G560:~$ modinfo ssb  | grep 4318
alias:          pci:v000014A4d00004318sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004318sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
e33@e33-G560:~$ wer=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

e33@e33-G560:~$ lspci -vvnn | grep 14e4
e33@e33-G560:~$

e33@e33-G560:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
b43-fwcutter is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
e33@e33-G560:~$ dmesg | grep b43
e33@e33-G560:~$

e33@e33-G560:~$ modinfo ssb  | grep 4318
alias:          pci:v000014A4d00004318sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
alias:          pci:v000014E4d00004318sv*sd*bc*sc*i*
e33@e33-G560:~$ 
e33@e33-G560:~$ modinfo wl  | grep 4318
e33@e33-G560:~$

e33@e33-G560:~$ rfkill list
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes
2: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
e33@e33-G560:~$

e33@e33-G560:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller [8086:0044] (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0046] (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller [8086:3b64] (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b3c] (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio [8086:3b56] (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 [8086:3b42] (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 [8086:3b44] (rev 05)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 [8086:3b46] (rev 05)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 [8086:3b4a] (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller [8086:3b34] (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller [8086:3b09] (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:3b29] (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller [8086:3b30] (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller [1180]: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem [8086:3b32] (rev 05)
05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
ff:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers [8086:2c62] (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder [8086:2d01] (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 [8086:2d10] (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 [8086:2d11] (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d12] (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved [8086:2d13] (rev 02)
e33@e33-G560:~$

Thanks in advance

[Rolandmaffia]

With due respect to my colleagues, I think it's due to a poor implemetation of the module dell-laptop. Please do:

lsmod | grep dell

If dell-laptop is loaded, remove it:

sudo rmmod -f dell-laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all

Is your wireless working now? If so, we'll need to blacklist dell-laptop.

I had same issue with Dell Inspiron 1120. Somehow, with disabling, reenabling it came back OK. I won't use the hardware button anymore. Thanks!