Turns out this is easy to reproduce, at least for me: * Associate with a wireless network. (This step may not be necessary, but is the normal state for me.) * Click nm-applet to activate the drop-down. * Uncheck "Enable Wireless" from the nm-applet drop-down. * Click nm-applet a second time to activate the drop-down. * Note under "Wireless Networks" in the nm-applet drop-down, the message "wireless is disabled by hardware switch". * Note that "Enable Wireless" in the nm-applet drop-down is greyed out.
To re-enable wireless, I have to: * Open a terminal. * Issue: "sudo rfkill list". * Note the indexes of the Wireless LAN entries that show "Soft blocked: yes". * Issue: "sudo rfkill unblock <n>" for each value of <n> returned by the command above. * Issue: "sudo service network-manager restart". * Click nm-applet to activate the drop-down. * Check "Enable Wireless" from the nm-applet drop-down. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/977639 Title: NetworkManager erroneously reports iwlwifi as "disabled by hardware switch" To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/977639/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
