Wireless is turned off Ubuntu 10.04

eleazsel@eleazsel-laptop:~$ sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install hwinfo grep; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scanning; cat /etc/network/interfaces; cat /etc/lsb-release; lspci -nn; lsusb; sudo lshw -short; uname -a; dmesg | egrep 'ound|irmware|eth|ath|wl|ipw|b43|witch|ndiswrapper'; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
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  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: MCP77 Ethernet
       vendor: nVidia Corporation
       physical id: a
       bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: a2
       serial: 00:1d:72:6c:cd:8c
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 66MHz
       capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.64 duplex=full ip=192.168.168.6 latency=0 link=yes maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:26 memory:c0009000-c0009fff ioport:30f8(size=8) memory:c0007c00-c0007cff memory:c0007800-c000780f
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:22:68:ad:ec:52
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath5k latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:23 memory:c2000000-c200ffff
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"
00:00.0 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller [10de:0754] (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge [0601]: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:075e] (rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBus [0c05]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus [10de:0752] (rev a1)
00:01.3 Co-processor [0b40]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor [10de:0753] (rev a2)
00:01.4 RAM memory [0500]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller [10de:0568] (rev a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:077b] (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:077c] (rev a1)
00:04.0 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller [10de:077d] (rev a1)
00:04.1 USB Controller [0c03]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller [10de:077e] (rev a1)
00:06.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE [10de:0759] (rev a1)
00:07.0 Audio device [0403]: nVidia Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio [10de:0774] (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge [10de:075a] (rev a1)
00:09.0 IDE interface [0101]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) [10de:0ad0] (rev a2)
00:0a.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: nVidia Corporation MCP77 Ethernet [10de:0760] (rev a2)
00:0b.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge [10de:0569] (rev a1)
00:14.0 PCI bridge [0604]: nVidia Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge [10de:077a] (rev a1)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1300] (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Address Map [1022:1301]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] DRAM Controller [1022:1302]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1303]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] Link Control [1022:1304]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200M G] [10de:0845] (rev a2)
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
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                        system Compaq Presario CQ50 Notebook PC
/0 bus 360A
/0/0 memory 102KiB BIOS
/0/3 processor AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-60
/0/3/5 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/3/6 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/4 memory 2GiB System Memory
/0/4/0 memory 1GiB DIMM DRAM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/4/1 memory 1GiB DIMM DRAM Synchronous 667 MHz (1.5 ns)
/0/5 processor
/0/5/0 memory 128KiB L1 cache
/0/5/1 memory 512KiB L2 cache
/0/b memory RAM memory
/0/1 bridge nVidia Corporation
/0/1.1 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus
/0/1.3 processor MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor
/0/1.4 memory RAM memory
/0/2 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controlle
/0/2.1 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controlle
/0/c bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controlle
/0/4.1 bus MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controlle
/0/6 storage MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE
/0/7 multimedia MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition
/0/8 bridge MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge
/0/9 scsi2 storage MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-A
/0/9/0 /dev/cdrom disk DVD RW AD-7561S
/0/9/1 /dev/sda disk 160GB SAMSUNG HM160HI
/0/9/1/1 /dev/sda1 volume 100MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/9/1/2 /dev/sda2 volume 78GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/9/1/3 /dev/sda3 volume 55GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/9/1/4 /dev/sda4 volume 10GiB Extended partition
/0/9/1/4/5 /dev/sda5 volume 10GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/9/1/4/6 /dev/sda6 volume 504MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/a eth0 network MCP77 Ethernet
/0/100 bridge MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge
/0/100/0 display C77 [GeForce 8200M G]
/0/14 bridge MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge
/0/14/0 wlan0 network AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter
/0/101 bridge Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] H
/0/102 bridge Family 11h [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] A
/0/103 bridge Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] D
/0/104 bridge Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] M
/0/105 bridge Mobile K10 [Turion X2, Athlon X2, Sempron] L
Linux eleazsel-laptop 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 3 22:02:19 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f7ff0] f7ff0
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=20390d22-c60f-4088-b432-01da0c99bfac ro quiet splash
[ 0.209866] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.244022] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.250205] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 0.305020] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input0
[ 0.306197] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 0.365591] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.377385] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.435195] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.491100] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.523677] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.523681] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.525479] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-60 processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 0.601979] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.687974] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 0.783484] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[ 0.783873] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMAC] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 0.783879] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.305682] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 00:1d:72:6c:cd:8c
[ 1.305687] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: highdma csum pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3
[ 11.223170] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 11.392988] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[ 11.393035] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 11.393093] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[ 11.612933] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[ 11.895526] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x64
[ 11.895531] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 11.895536] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 11.895538] ath: Regpair used: 0x64
[ 11.903554] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
[ 11.903579] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
[ 11.903584] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
[ 12.457694] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 14.604335] input: HDA NVidia Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/sound/card0/input8
[ 14.604566] input: HDA NVidia Mic as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/sound/card0/input9
[ 14.604794] input: HDA NVidia Headphone as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:07.0/sound/card0/input10
[ 14.734550] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 15.570625] ipw2100: Unknown parameter `exit'
[ 23.308277] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
          Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf:# replaced by b43 and ssb.
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
21: PCI 0a.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10de_760
  Unique ID: rBUF.HOUiokKC0A4
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0a.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:00:0a.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "nVidia MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet"
  Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
  Device: pci 0x0760 "MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Ethernet"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x360a
  Revision: 0xa2
  Driver: "forcedeth"
  Driver Modules: "forcedeth"
  Device File: eth0
  Memory Range: 0xc0009000-0xc0009fff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  I/O Ports: 0x30f8-0x30ff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xc0007c00-0xc0007cff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xc0007800-0xc000780f (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 26 (19606 events)
  HW Address: 00:1d:72:6c:cd:8c
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00000760sv0000103Csd0000360Abc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: forcedeth is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe forcedeth"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

30: PCI 700.0: 0282 WLAN controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_1c
  Unique ID: y9sn.eYBzW3bmQnB
  Parent ID: MZfG.K0fHNnB0W84
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/0000:07:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:07:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0x001c "AR242x 802.11abg Wireless PCI Express Adapter"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x137a
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "ath5k"
  Driver Modules: "ath5k"
  Device File: wlan0
  Features: WLAN
  Memory Range: 0xc2000000-0xc200ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 23 (1 event)
  HW Address: 00:22:68:ad:ec:52
  WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
  WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462
  WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
  WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd0000001Csv0000103Csd0000137Abc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ath5k is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath5k"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #23 (PCI bridge)
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.