Another Natty upgrade with lost wifi

[silex89]

Oh gosh..... :S....

The ath9k driver was installed from jockey right?

[chili555]

What does this tell us?

rfkill list all

Thanks.

[rickbeton]

rick@pond:~$ rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

[chili555]

rick@pond:~$ rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
1: acer-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Please try:

sudo rmmod -f acer-wmi
sudo rfkill unblock all

Does it work now? If so, we can amputate acer-wmi.

[rickbeton]

Sweet! It's now working nicely.

Rick

[chili555]

Would you care to make it permanent? If so, please do:

sudo su
echo "blacklist acer-wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit

Post back if you have more questions.

WARNING! silex and Steve, if you don't have this symptom, then this fix is not for you:

acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes

[silex89]

Don't worry man I was trying to guess a solution for the issue the guys were having. I have no issues with my laptop.

There's a ton of things I have to learn yet


Best Luck!

[rickbeton]

Would you care to make it permanent? If so, please do:

sudo su
echo "blacklist acer-wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit

Thanks very much - it's working well now.