Managed to disable my wireless, not sure how to re-enable it.
Went to this site:
Followed instructions in the howto for beginners, got the following result. The trouble is, I'm fairly certain I deactivated my wireless with a hardware button on my laptop, a Compaq Presario CQ50, but pressing that same button does not enable wireless again, though it is supposed to, or so I think. I am on 10.04 LTS and can connect via wire just fine, but my wireless went poof.
I am not sure how to enable wireless at this point. Issue began one day ago.
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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:72:6b:85:bb
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
resources: irq:26 memory:
*-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: 00:22:69:61:41:69
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:23 memory:
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_
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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/
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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/0 bus 360A
/0/0 memory 102KiB BIOS
/0/3 processor AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-62
/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/
/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-7560S
/0/9/1 /dev/sda disk 160GB TOSHIBA MK1652GS
/0/9/1/1 /dev/sda1 volume 144GiB EXT3 volume
/0/9/1/2 /dev/sda2 volume 5153MiB Extended partition
/0/9/1/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 5153MiB 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 andrew-laptop 2.6.32-25-generic #44-Ubuntu SMP Fri Sep 17 20:26:08 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [c00f7ff0] f7ff0
[ 0.204049] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.232145] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.232159] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.232190] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.236025] Switching to clocksource hpet
[ 0.242427] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 12 devices
[ 0.295756] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 0.296758] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 0.361199] usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.361232] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.373189] usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.373221] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.431156] usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.431189] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.487086] usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 0.487112] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.518264] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.0 loaded
[ 0.518267] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 0.520101] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon Dual-Core QL-62 processors (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 0.592806] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 0.679336] isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
[ 0.795477] forcedeth: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet driver. Version 0.64.
[ 0.795858] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LMAC] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
[ 0.795864] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 1.313492] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: ifname eth0, PHY OUI 0x732 @ 1, addr 00:1d:72:6b:85:bb
[ 1.313497] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: highdma csum pwrctl mgmt lnktim msi desc-v3
[ 23.440788] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 23.619841] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 23.620046] eth0: no link during initialization.
[ 23.620568] ADDRCONF(
[ 24.311408] apm: BIOS not found.
[ 24.351705] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[ 24.351718] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 24.351776] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: registered as 'phy0'
[ 24.578373] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
[ 24.852905] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x64
[ 24.852909] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 24.852915] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 24.852917] ath: Regpair used: 0x64
[ 26.031189] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::rx
[ 26.031216] Registered led device: ath5k-phy0::tx
[ 26.031220] ath5k phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)
[ 26.474303] ADDRCONF(
[ 27.489114] input: HDA NVidia Mic as /devices/
[ 27.489219] input: HDA NVidia Mic as /devices/
[ 27.489289] input: HDA NVidia Headphone as /devices/
[ 229.134900] ADDRCONF(
[ 1939.253572] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 1939.301228] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: PCI INT A disabled
[ 1939.916558] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[ 1939.924246] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[ 1940.137630] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0xb00003, writing 0xb00007)
[ 1940.138098] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3 (was 0x0, writing 0x8)
[ 1940.354216] usb usb3: root hub lost power or was reset
[ 1940.354231] usb usb1: root hub lost power or was reset
[ 1940.410100] usb usb4: root hub lost power or was reset
[ 1940.410113] usb usb2: root hub lost power or was reset
[ 1940.928513] PM: restore of drv:forcedeth dev:0000:00:0a.0 complete after 518.123 msecs
[ 1941.277737] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[ 1941.408329] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb1 complete after 130.097 msecs
[ 1941.540270] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb2 complete after 131.923 msecs
[ 1943.404809] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
[44228.216844] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[44228.704018] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[44228.712008] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[44228.925274] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0xb00003, writing 0xb00007)
[44228.925741] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3 (was 0x0, writing 0x8)
[44229.154552] usb usb3: root hub lost power or was reset
[44229.154567] usb usb1: root hub lost power or was reset
[44229.210344] usb usb4: root hub lost power or was reset
[44229.210357] usb usb2: root hub lost power or was reset
[44229.728777] PM: restore of drv:forcedeth dev:0000:00:0a.0 complete after 518.144 msecs
[44230.074950] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[44230.204181] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb1 complete after 128.740 msecs
[44230.336108] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb2 complete after 131.911 msecs
[44263.180620] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
[55915.216865] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[55915.704018] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[55915.712008] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[55915.929239] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0xb00003, writing 0xb00007)
[55915.929706] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3 (was 0x0, writing 0x8)
[55916.154009] usb usb3: root hub lost power or was reset
[55916.154024] usb usb1: root hub lost power or was reset
[55916.210482] usb usb4: root hub lost power or was reset
[55916.210495] usb usb2: root hub lost power or was reset
[55916.728959] PM: restore of drv:forcedeth dev:0000:00:0a.0 complete after 518.189 msecs
[55917.076879] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[55917.208094] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb1 complete after 130.720 msecs
[55917.340040] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb2 complete after 131.931 msecs
[55923.233594] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
[55923.233806] eth0: no link during initialization.
[55923.234542] ADDRCONF(
[57360.180534] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
[57360.668022] SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
[57360.676009] SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code
[57360.889768] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0xb00003, writing 0xb00007)
[57360.890234] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: restoring config space at offset 0x3 (was 0x0, writing 0x8)
[57361.110029] usb usb3: root hub lost power or was reset
[57361.110044] usb usb1: root hub lost power or was reset
[57361.166281] usb usb4: root hub lost power or was reset
[57361.166293] usb usb2: root hub lost power or was reset
[57361.684692] PM: restore of drv:forcedeth dev:0000:00:0a.0 complete after 518.122 msecs
[57362.043656] ath5k 0000:07:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[Z012] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 23
[57362.172340] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb1 complete after 128.189 msecs
[57362.304567] PM: restore of drv:usb dev:usb2 complete after 132.210 msecs
[57372.692932] forcedeth 0000:00:0a.0: irq 26 for MSI/MSI-X
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
/etc/modprobe.
/etc/modprobe.
21: PCI 0a.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
[Created at pci.318]
UDI: /org/freedeskto
Unique ID: rBUF.HOUiokKC0A4
SysFS ID: /devices/
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-
I/O Ports: 0x30f8-0x30ff (rw)
Memory Range: 0xc0007c00-
Memory Range: 0xc0007800-
IRQ: 26 (3263 events)
HW Address: 00:1d:72:6b:85:bb
Link detected: yes
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd
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/freedeskto
Unique ID: y9sn.eYBzW3bmQnB
Parent ID: MZfG.K0fHNnB0W84
SysFS ID: /devices/
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-
IRQ: 23 (116 events)
HW Address: 00:22:69:61:41:69
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:v0000168Cd
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)
[main]
NetworkingEnabl
WirelessEnabled
WWANEnabled=true
Module Size Used by
snd_hda_
snd_hda_
binfmt_misc 6587 1
ppdev 5259 0
snd_hda_intel 22037 4
snd_hda_codec 74201 3 snd_hda_
snd_hwdep 5412 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm_oss 35308 0
snd_mixer_oss 13746 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 70694 4 snd_hda_
snd_seq_dummy 1338 0
snd_seq_oss 26726 0
snd_seq_midi 4557 0
snd_rawmidi 19056 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event 6003 2 snd_seq_
arc4 1153 2
snd_seq 47263 6 snd_seq_
nvidia 9961216 30
snd_timer 19098 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
fbcon 35102 71
snd_seq_device 5700 5 snd_seq_
tileblit 2031 1 fbcon
ath5k 121664 0
font 7557 1 fbcon
bitblit 4707 1 fbcon
joydev 8708 0
agpgart 31724 1 nvidia
mac80211 205402 1 ath5k
softcursor 1189 1 bitblit
snd 54148 19 snd_hda_
ath 7611 1 ath5k
soundcore 6620 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 7076 2 snd_hda_
vga16fb 11385 1
vgastate 8961 1 vga16fb
cfg80211 126496 3 ath5k,mac80211,ath
i2c_nforce2 5199 0
shpchp 28820 0
led_class 2864 1 ath5k
video 17375 0
output 1871 1 video
psmouse 63245 0
serio_raw 3978 0
lp 7060 0
parport 32635 2 ppdev,lp
ahci 32200 2
forcedeth 49556 0
pata_amd 8766 0
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