I got a Lenovo Thinkpad z570 yesterday with Ubuntu 11 installed. One major issue is that wireless does not work. "Wireless is disabled by the hardware switch" is the status in Network Manager. Wired ethernet works.
I googled this message and there are many posts specific to this issue. But none of the workarounds enabled wireless The following are some details. Has anyone faced this issue or have a solution? david@david-Ideapad-Z570:~$ uname -a Linux david-Ideapad-Z570 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux david@david-Ideapad-Z570:~$ lspci |grep Atheros 02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) david@david-Ideapad-Z570:~$ rfkill list 0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 3: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 4: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to ilug-tvm@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to ilug-tvm-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en