Originally Posted by
Wild Man
It says hard blocked that usually means the wireless switch is off.
Thanks
Yes, but that's the internal wireless. I actually want that one to be turned off, and want my USB/wireless adapter to ... do something!
Further, my laptop doesn't even have a switch - under 11.04 I had a fair bit of research to find the
code to turn the internal wireless off.
After some more flaiing around I have arrived at this (I've been rebooting and mod-probing
after googling)
Code:
rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
2: phy4: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=off Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Despite this, the network manager thing in the task bar shows BOTH wireless
interfaces as disabled by hardware switch.
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