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    Exclamation [SOLVED] Dell Wireless Hard Blocked

    Hi,

    The wireless on my Dell Inspiron 1018 (Dual booted Windows and Ubuntu) seems to have stopped working after I pressed the wireless button (F2) on the keyboard.

    Pressing it again does not seem to re-enable it.

    This has happened before and booting it into Windows and press F2 normally re-enables the wireless.

    This time, however, (after updating to 12.04) the wireless is disabled again when I boot back into Ubuntu.

    Here's my outputs:

    rfkill list
    Code:
    me@sInspiron-1018:~$ rfkill list
    0: hci0: Bluetooth
    	Soft blocked: no
    	Hard blocked: no
    3: phy0: Wireless LAN
    	Soft blocked: no
    	Hard blocked: yes
    4: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
    	Soft blocked: yes
    	Hard blocked: yes
    5: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
    	Soft blocked: no
    	Hard blocked: no
    (Interestingly, after I enable the wireless in Windows and go back to Linux, dell-wifi hard blocked is listed as no. Despite this, phy0 is still hard blocked and the wireless is still disabled)

    iwconfig:
    Code:
    me@sInspiron-1018:~$ iwconfig
    lo        no wireless extensions.
    
    wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
              Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
              Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr:off
              Power Management:on
              
    eth0      no wireless extensions.
    ifconfig
    Code:
    me@sInspiron-1018:~$ ifconfig
    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 5c:26:0a:10:c9:e6  
              UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
              Interrupt:43 
    
    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
              inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
              inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
              UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
              RX packets:848 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:848 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
              RX bytes:66912 (66.9 KB)  TX bytes:66912 (66.9 KB)
    lspci -nn
    Code:
    me@sInspiron-1018:~$ lspci -nn
    00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge [8086:a010]
    00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a011]
    00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:a012]
    00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller [8086:27d8] (rev 02)
    00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 [8086:27d0] (rev 02)
    00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 [8086:27d2] (rev 02)
    00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:27c8] (rev 02)
    00:1d.1 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:27c9] (rev 02)
    00:1d.2 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:27ca] (rev 02)
    00:1d.3 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:27cb] (rev 02)
    00:1d.7 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:27cc] (rev 02)
    00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev e2)
    00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller [8086:27bc] (rev 02)
    00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [8086:27c1] (rev 02)
    00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller [8086:27da] (rev 02)
    05:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
    07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter [10ec:8176] (rev 01)
    lsmod
    Code:
    me@sInspiron-1018:~$ lsmod
    Module                  Size  Used by
    nls_iso8859_1          12617  1 
    nls_cp437              12751  1 
    vfat                   17308  1 
    fat                    55605  1 vfat
    dell_laptop            13671  0 
    bnep                   17830  2 
    rfcomm                 38139  16 
    parport_pc             32114  0 
    ppdev                  12849  0 
    arc4                   12473  2 
    binfmt_misc            17292  1 
    joydev                 17393  0 
    iptable_nat            13016  0 
    nf_nat                 24959  1 iptable_nat
    nf_conntrack_ipv4      19084  3 iptable_nat,nf_nat
    nf_conntrack           73847  3 iptable_nat,nf_nat,nf_conntrack_ipv4
    nf_defrag_ipv4         12649  1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
    iptable_mangle         12646  0 
    iptable_filter         12706  0 
    ip_tables              18106  3 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter
    x_tables               21974  4 iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter,ip_tables
    snd_hda_codec_realtek   174055  1 
    dcdbas                 14098  1 dell_laptop
    snd_hda_intel          32765  3 
    rtl8192ce             127376  0 
    snd_hda_codec         109562  2 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel
    snd_hwdep              13276  1 snd_hda_codec
    snd_pcm                80845  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
    rtlwifi               107553  1 rtl8192ce
    snd_seq_midi           13132  0 
    snd_rawmidi            25424  1 snd_seq_midi
    snd_seq_midi_event     14475  1 snd_seq_midi
    snd_seq                51567  2 snd_seq_midi,snd_seq_midi_event
    snd_timer              28931  2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
    snd_seq_device         14172  3 snd_seq_midi,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq
    uvcvideo               67203  0 
    videodev               86588  1 uvcvideo
    btusb                  17912  2 
    psmouse                87140  0 
    bluetooth             158438  23 bnep,rfcomm,btusb
    serio_raw              13027  0 
    mac80211              436455  2 rtl8192ce,rtlwifi
    snd                    62064  15 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hwdep,snd_pcm,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq,snd_timer,snd_seq_device
    cfg80211              178679  2 rtlwifi,mac80211
    i915                  414568  3 
    soundcore              14635  1 snd
    snd_page_alloc         14115  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
    drm_kms_helper         45466  1 i915
    drm                   197692  4 i915,drm_kms_helper
    i2c_algo_bit           13199  1 i915
    video                  19068  1 i915
    mac_hid                13077  0 
    lp                     17455  0 
    parport                40930  3 parport_pc,ppdev,lp
    ums_realtek            17920  0 
    usb_storage            39646  2 ums_realtek
    uas                    17699  0 
    r8169                  56321  0
    I have tried (thanks to some of the advice in other threads)

    1) As mentioned above, booting into Windows and pressing the hardware switch - which works until I boot back into Ubuntu.
    2) rmmod dell-laptop and then attempting to unblock/press the switch
    3) Reinstalling my wireless driver rtl8192ce

    Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
    Last edited by ZeroZeroZero; April 12th, 2012 at 10:00 PM. Reason: Resolved

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