Re: net manager wireless disabled

[sheltraw berkeley edu]

Hi Tony

I rebooted and now wireless works! You are a networking angel!

I will see if it works with my home network later today.

Thanks soooo much.


> sheltraw berkeley edu wrote:
>> Thanks again Tony
>>
>> There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which
>> I never noticed before. I have turned wireless on but still not working.
>
> Have you tried re-booting after turning it on?
>
>> Strangely Ubuntu 9.04 was unaffected by this hardware switch. Wireless
>> worked out-of-the-box for 9.04! Why is there a wireless kill switch
>> anyhow? Seem odd that of all the chipsets on a motherboard wireless
>> would have its own user-accessible kill switch.
>
> The wireless kill switch is present so that you can turn off the radio
> for power-saving or say if you're on an airplane.
>
> That said, trying to explain why it worked in 9.04 and not in 9.10 is a
> long story...which I'm going to avoid trying to explain.
>
> Again it also depends a lot on what hardware you have.
>
> Regards,
> /tony
>
>
>>
>>
>>> sheltraw berkeley edu wrote:
>>>> Hi Tony
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for the info. Similar bugs have been reported to Ubuntu and
>>>> there oddly appears to be no fix yet.
>>> That's because it's not a single bug.  First, there are many brands of
>>> Wi-Fi cards each requiring different drivers.  This is then compounded
>>> by the fact the various OEMs wire their platforms differently...  thus
>>> operation of kill switches is dependent on Wi-Fi driver + platform (
>>> and
>>> possibly platform driver ).
>>>
>>> When you report a bug using "ubuntu-bug", information is gathered from
>>> your particular machine which can help developers determine your
>>> particular problem.
>>>
>>>> "rfkill list" tells me that wireless LAN is hard blocked. Do you
>>>> know how to unblock?
>>> Hard-blocked means that a hardware kill switch has been enabled.  You
>>> should check to see if there's an obvious kill switch that you can
>>> disable on your machine.  If not, then it's probably an issue with the
>>> Wi-Fi driver and/or platform driver.
>>>
>>> With respect to the HW kill switch, you might want to check the OEM's
>>> manual for your specific model.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> /tony
>>>
>>>
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