Re: Hardware blocked

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 22:45 +0600, flashvoid wrote:
> Hello to all.
> 
> Recently, i have damaged something in my laptop and my wifi card
> always in hardware-blocked state now.
> I am have installed usb wifi dongle that is work. I can configure
> wpa_supplicant and /etc/network/interfaces and it is perfectly ok, but
> network-manager says that both my wifi cards in hardware blocked
> state.
> So i am want to ask - is there are any way to say network-manager to
> ignore hardware-blocked flag ?
> 
> I can provide additional information if needed.

One thing to try is to blacklist the kernel driver for your old wifi
card using /etc/modprobe.d/ or /etc/modprobe.conf.  What kind of laptop
is it?

Dan