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RTL8188CE wifi card disabled in Ubuntu 12.04

Asked by Prithvyraj Vasu C

My RTL8188wifi card is not working with ubuntu since i upgraded to ubuntu 11.10. Now I have freshly installed ubuntu 12.04 but the result is the same. previously it was showing "wireless disabled by hardware switch".. now its showing "wireless is disabled"

the output of 'rfkill list all ' command is :

0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Do you dual boot the system?

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dmesg | grep -i firm

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Prithvyraj Vasu C (prithvyraj) said : 		#2

No My system only uses ubuntu

output of 'sudo lshw -C network; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dmesg | grep -i firm' is

 *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 05
       serial: 5c:26:0a:1e:37:b6
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.1.3 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0f2c000-f0f2cfff memory:f0f18000-f0f1bfff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 1c:65:9d:9d:04:b7
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192ce driverversion=3.2.0-24-generic-pae firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0100000-f0103fff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise
Linux prithvi-Inspiron-1018 3.2.0-24-generic-pae #39-Ubuntu SMP Mon May 21 18:54:21 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[ 0.300655] pci 0000:00:1f.0: [Firmware Bug]: TigerPoint LPC.BM_STS cleared

thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

If you have a key to enable / disable wifi, press it. Does it come up?

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Prithvyraj Vasu C (prithvyraj) said : 		#4

There is a designated key... F2 is the key to enable and disable wifi. but its not working.. My netbook is a Dell mini 1018, it seems that wifi hot key of this model is not supported in ubuntu 12.04 see the link " http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/hardware/201010-6646/

thank you

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#5

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