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Hi all,
Recently my wife's laptop has been experiencing some wireless issues -
slow performance, drop-outs and the like. We have numerous
wireless-enabled devices in the house and although we have the
occasional blip, none of the other devices seem to be affected to the
same extent, so I figured it was probably related to the laptop itself
and set about trying to figure out what the problem might be.
The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450-188 running Ubuntu 12.04 with
the LTS backport kernel from Raring. The original wireless card in it
is a Realtek RTL8191SE. I tried replacing it with the Atheros-based
card from my son's EeePC, but although the card was apparently
recognised, and the ath5k module loaded, the card was disabled:
jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
rfkill unblock has no effect - no error, but the card remains hard
blocked. The wireless key (Fn-F8) simply toggles the soft block, and
the laptop has no hardware switch that I can see. There's a setting
in the BIOS that doesn't seem to have any effect. So I picked up an
Intel IWL4965AGN card on eBay for a couple of quid and tried that, but
the result was the same:
jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on. Is it
possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to a
specific kind of wireless card?
JT
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