HP g60 wireless issue

[chili555]

Please do:

sudo su
echo "blacklist hp_wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
gedit /etc/rc.local

Add a new line right above the line 'Exit 0':

rfkill unblock all

Now reboot and do not press the button. Is the LED orange or blue? When you click the Network Manager icon, do you see networks? What is the result of:

sudo iwlist scan

Thanks.

[baldy4eva]

Done as you suggested. The button is still blue and Network Manager is showing Wireless as Disconnected. I' getting

sudo iwlist scan 

lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0     No scan results

[chili555]

We have a wireless interface, wlan0! According to your dmesg, no interface was created previously, so we are making some progress. Please post:

dmesg | grep -e ath5k -e wlan

Thanks.

[baldy4eva]

Yeah, things are looking up! Not tried connecting yet, as it should detect my network straight away, right?

$ dmesg | grep -e ath5k -e wlan
[   14.121750] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[   14.121764] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[   14.121823] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[   14.829861] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
[   14.829887] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
[   14.829891] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
[   15.134087] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

[chili555]

Are you connected with an ethernet cable? Network Manager will disable the wireless in preference to wired: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NetworkManager

The computer should use the wired network connection when it's plugged in, but automatically switch to a wireless connection when the user unplugs it and walks away from the desk. Likewise, when the user plugs the computer back in, the computer should switch back to the wired connection. The user should, most times, not even notice that their connection has been managed for them

Please detach the cable, wait a few moments for NM to notice the change in state and click the NM icon. Do you see your network?

[baldy4eva]

Success!! My home network was detected straight away, and the light remained blue. After a reboot with the network cable detached, I got the Wireless Networks Available pop-up! Password entered, and now using wire less..

Thanks for all your help Chili I'll mark this thread as solved

[chili555]

Woo hoo! Glad it's working. I suspect we have helped a few searchers, too.

[bford16]

I have a similar problem on my HP dv7-1232NR. The machine has an Atheros wifi card, and it usually works fine. But now and then the wifi will suddenly become disabled.

Supposedly touching the wifi LED will enable/disable wifi, but this has never worked for me. I suspect there is a key combination that does this, but I have been unable to find it. Last night, after reading several different forums, I realized that "rfkill list" was showing 2 wifi cards!

hp_wifi
soft blocked: no
hard blocked: no

phy0
soft blocked: no
hard blocked: yes

After some detective work, I realized that "hp_wifi" was provided by "hp_wmi." So I did this:

sudo modprobe -r -f hp_wmi
sudo modprobe -r -f ath5k

Then restarted the laptop. The wifi came up immediately and works as desired. I did not blacklist hp_wmi; I don't think it was the culprit. I think what happened was that I somehow accidentally triggered the hardware killswitch by some unknown key combination. I will try to find evidence to back up my theory, and repost to this thread.

[baldy4eva]

Update: Well the wifi is now working, but after a reboot (I had to go to the shop.. lol), Network manager is not finding my network :s... I might try the

 sudo modprobe -r -f ath5k

to see if it helps. Failing that I'll have a look on the other threads.

[bford16]

UPDATE:

I found the key combination to turn wireless on and off (for my dv7-1232NR). Here's what i did.

I switched to a tty (using Ctrl+Alt+F4). I ran

showkey -k

With showkey running, I tapped the wireless button. Nothing happened; showkey did not display any data. Then I pressed the Quickplay button (looks like a letter Q next to the Power button). That turned the wireless off! Showkey said

keycode 46 press
keycode 46 release

Unfortunately pressing the Quickplay button by itself did not turn the wireless back on. But when I held my finger on the wireless button, and pressed the Quickplay button, the wireless did in fact come back on. Success!!