This bug appears to be linked to combination of ATH5K driver and Atheros
AR5007EG wifi card.
I swapped the wifi card from another netbook, An Atheros AR9285 model.
After power up it has ATH9K loaded instead of ATH5K.
The RFKILL LIST displays both soft and hard blocked as NO
Press the FN-F2 and
Could it be linked to the fact that I purchased my laptop without the bluetooth
option.
I think if it comes with bluetooth the function key cycles through 4 options.
OFFWiFiWiFi+BTBTOFF
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Hi again
Bug present in Lucid also.
I have tested Live, Installed and am now performing an update-manager upgrade
to Lucid with all patches.
Symptoms so far are the same.
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Lucid is worse after update
rmmod, unblock, modprobe, no longer give consistent restoration.
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080045
Title:
168c:001c Wireless get stuck in Hard
I have only tested (or attempted to test) versions 11.10 onward in Ubuntu and
Linux Mint 11-14.
Of the versions that I can get to a desktop environment they all have this bug.
And the workaround of rmmod ath5k, rfkill unblock, modprobe ath5k works
consitently with all. Until I hit the function
Public bug reported:
I think I have a bug with rfkill getting stuck in Hard Blocked mode.
Wireless is working and Connected
student@student-EDUbook-Slim ~ $ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
First press of wireless function key F4
I tried v3.7-rc6 but the computer would not boot.
I ended at a screen warning me I am in low graphics mode, Your screen,
graphics card, input device settings could not be detected.
I tried continuing to low res mode and ended with a blinking cursor top left.
I tried using backup and other option
Thank you for your help so far.
If this is the same release as on the main ubuntu website I suspect I have
already tried to boot it from DVD without success.
Just in case, I will download the ISO from the link you provided and try
again anyway.
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OK ,I burned the ISO and boted.
I then selected 'Try Ubuntu' then ended back at console, A quick flash of a
page of commands then a blank screen with blinking cursor top left, no command
line.
I will try the install option ;-(
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No success with install option.
First I tried install upgrade and ended up with 3.7 RC6 and no mouse or
touchpad an a display that appeared to extend off the screen.
Then I tried a clean install deleting the partition first and ended up
back at blinking cursor.
Not looking hopeful so far.
My
I think I have the same bug.
Wireless is working and Connected
student@student-EDUbook-Slim ~ $ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
First press of wireless function key F4
student@student-EDUbook-Slim ~ $ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
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