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
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