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. 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.
> shelt...@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 > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list