PanP5 on Lucid: wireless is disabled

**lnxguit** · April 30th, 2010

I upgraded my PanP5 from Karmic to Lucid (64 bit) last night, and it seems like everything is working so far.
However, I am unable to use the function keys Fn+F11 to turn on the wireless.
Is there a command-line method to enable wireless?

**thomasaaron** · April 30th, 2010

We're getting that on the shop Pangolin too. But the wireless is enabled... just the Fn-F11 isn't really working.

Did you try right-clicking on network manager and enabling wireless?

If that doesn't work, try...

Code:

sudo modprobe iwlagn

**lnxguit** · April 30th, 2010

I did "sudo modprobe iwlagn" and then "lsmod"
iwlagn,iwlcore & mac80211 are all loaded - however, I cannot enable wireless.
Any other ideas?

**thomasaaron** · April 30th, 2010

Please go to System > Admin > Software Sources > Updates (tab) and make sure Proposed and Backports are enabled. Then run your updates and reboot.

Does that fix it?

**lnxguit** · May 1st, 2010

Thanks - I enabled Proposed and Backports and can now turn on wireless!
Unfortunately, it looks like I'm running into a different bug - my wireless is VERY slow. (went from ~10 megabits/second down to 1 megabit/second.
I am experiencing the same problem on a desktop running Lucid, and haven't solved it yet.