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I'm on an Acer Aspire One 721-3574. The symptom was that I couldn't enable wireless with any of the usual tricks. After doing a bit of research and playing for a few hours/days, I finally figured out that for whatever reason, the acer_wmi kernel module was soft blocking every wireless card on the laptop (external usb nic's too). I demonstrate this here: http://paste.pound-python.org/show/6078/ Immediately after line 63, the hardware wireless indicator lights up for a brief moment, and is then re-extinguished. acer_wmi doesn't seem to have much utility, is obviously buggy, and should be blacklisted--possibly as an update and definitely in the 11.10 if the problem hasn't been fixed by then. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Fix Released -- acer-wmi kernel module causes wireless to not work https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/776806 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp