1: phy0: Wireless LAN Hard blocked: yes -> DISABLED Wireless Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01) not working due to hardware wireless kill switch on HP Compaq Presario CQ62 Notebook PC in Ubuntu 10.10

Hi,
   This is my latest attempt to enable my atheros ar9285 wireless card. I copied that command to my terminal and here's what happened:

ark@Laptop:~$ 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 | grep ound; dmesg | grep irmware ; dmesg | grep ipw; dmesg | grep eth; dmesg | grep ath; dmesg | grep b43; dmesg | grep wl; dmesg | grep witch; iwconfig; grep b43 /etc/modprobe.d/*; grep wl /etc/modprobe.d/*; sudo hwinfo --netcard ; sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
[sudo] password for ark:
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)
       vendor: Atheros Communications Inc.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 78:e4:00:3a:e3:d5
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=2.6.35-23-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:17 memory:d0100000-d010ffff
  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 02
       serial: c8:0a:a9:79:b0:3a
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.24.103 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0010000-d0010fff memory:d0000000-d000ffff memory:d0020000-d002ffff
0: hp-wwan: Wireless WAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: 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=10.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=maverick
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.10"
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge Alternate [1022:9601]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx) [1022:9602]
00:05.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1) [1022:9605]
00:06.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2) [1022:9606]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1002:4391]
00:12.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:12.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:13.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:13.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller [1002:4385] (rev 41)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) [1002:4383] (rev 40)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller [1002:439d] (rev 40)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge [1002:4384] (rev 40)
00:14.5 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller [1002:4399]
00:16.0 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller [1002:4397]
00:16.2 USB Controller [0c03]: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller [1002:4396]
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Configuration [1022:1200]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Address Map [1022:1201]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller [1022:1202]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Control [1022:1203]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 10h Processor Link Control [1022:1204]
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9712]
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) [168c:002b] (rev 01)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 04fc:05d8 Sunplus Technology Co., Ltd Wireless keyboard/mouse
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04e8:681c Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Galaxy Portal/Spica Android Phone
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
H/W path Device Class Description
====================================================
                             system Presario CQ62 Notebook PC
/0 bus 1444
/0/0 memory 1MiB BIOS
/0/c processor AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Proces
/0/c/d memory 256KiB L1 cache
/0/c/e memory 1MiB L2 cache
/0/f memory 3GiB System Memory
/0/f/0 memory 2GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 n
/0/f/1 memory 1GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 n
/0/100 bridge RS780 Host Bridge Alternate
/0/100/1 bridge RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
/0/100/1/5 display M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
/0/100/5 bridge RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
/0/100/5/0 wlan0 network AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Ex
/0/100/6 bridge RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
/0/100/6/0 eth0 network RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethe
/0/100/11 scsi0 storage SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
/0/100/11/0 /dev/sda disk 250GB Hitachi HTS72502
/0/100/11/0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 224GiB EXT4 volume
/0/100/11/0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 8084MiB Extended partition
/0/100/11/0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 8084MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/11/1 /dev/cdrom disk CDDVDW TS-L633N
/0/100/12 bus SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
/0/100/12.2 bus SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/13 bus SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
/0/100/13.2 bus SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/14 bus SBx00 SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.2 multimedia SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
/0/100/14.3 bridge SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
/0/100/14.4 bridge SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
/0/100/14.5 bus SB700/SB800 USB OHCI2 Controller
/0/100/16 bus SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
/0/100/16.2 bus SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
/0/101 bridge Family 10h Processor HyperTransport Con
/0/102 bridge Family 10h Processor Address Map
/0/103 bridge Family 10h Processor DRAM Controller
/0/104 bridge Family 10h Processor Miscellaneous Cont
/0/105 bridge Family 10h Processor Link Control
/0/1 scsi2 storage
/0/1/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk SCSI Disk
/1 power MU06047
Linux Laptop 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 11:55:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.345148] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.404370] HEST: Table is not found!
[ 0.420880] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
[ 0.715861] ERST: Table is not found!
[ 0.732824] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.752760] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.772758] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.836784] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.896742] hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.956744] hub 6-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.016717] hub 7-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.035306] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 1.036336] powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon(tm) II P320 Dual-Core Processor (2 cpu cores) (version 2.20.00)
[ 1.037024] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 9.757736] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 0.714228] [Firmware Bug]: Invalid critical threshold (0)
[ 1.239322] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: RTL8102e at 0xffffc9000067a000, c8:0a:a9:79:b0:3a, XID 04e00000 IRQ 42
[ 18.024515] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 18.025082] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 110.781095] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 110.782541] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 111.046926] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 111.048239] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 183.279507] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 183.280886] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 211.819984] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 211.820977] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 212.060592] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 212.062208] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 214.913001] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 214.914278] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[ 225.651385] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 1.035304] device-mapper: multipath: version 1.1.1 loaded
[ 1.035306] device-mapper: multipath round-robin: version 1.0.0 loaded
[ 11.712390] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_hif_usb
[ 11.769768] ath9k 0000:02:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
[ 11.769779] ath9k 0000:02:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
[ 11.820656] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x60
[ 11.820658] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map
[ 11.820662] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00
[ 11.820663] ath: Regpair used: 0x60
[ 11.885101] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'ath9k_rate_control'
[ 11.885660] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::radio
[ 11.885675] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::assoc
[ 11.885689] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::tx
[ 11.885705] Registered led device: ath9k-phy0::rx
[ 0.000000] Command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=UUID=38789db6-a5d8-4493-b437-4aa2a2399f43 ro quiet splash
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-23-generic root=UUID=38789db6-a5d8-4493-b437-4aa2a2399f43 ro quiet splash
[ 0.320042] Switch to broadcast mode on CPU1
[ 0.320218] Switch to broadcast mode on CPU0
[ 0.410000] Switching to clocksource tsc
[ 0.710609] input: Lid Switch as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C0D:00/input/input1
[ 0.710969] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn 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/broadcom-sta-common.conf:blacklist b43legacy
/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf:blacklist b43
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-watchdog.conf:blacklist twl4030_wdt
/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf:# wl module from Broadcom conflicts with ssb
/etc/modprobe.d/broadcom-sta-common.conf:install wl /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install wl $CMDLINE_OPTS
/etc/modprobe.d/intel-5300-iwlagn-disable11n.conf:options iwlagn 11n_disable=1
30: PCI 200.0: 0282 WLAN controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_168c_2b
  Unique ID: y9sn.28HrseZoWtB
  Parent ID: CvwD.lgQIGR1E+d6
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:05.0/0000:02:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:02:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Atheros WLAN controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x168c "Atheros Communications Inc."
  Device: pci 0x002b
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x3040
  Revision: 0x01
  Driver: "ath9k"
  Driver Modules: "ath9k"
  Device File: wlan0
  Features: WLAN
  Memory Range: 0xd0100000-0xd010ffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
  IRQ: 17 (3515 events)
  HW Address: 78:e4:00:3a:e3:d5
  Link detected: yes
  WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
  WLAN frequencies: 2.412 2.417 2.422 2.427 2.432 2.437 2.442 2.447 2.452 2.457 2.462 2.467 2.472 2.484
  WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP
  WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap
  Module Alias: "pci:v0000168Cd0000002Bsv0000103Csd00003040bc02sc80i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: ath9k is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe ath9k"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #10 (PCI bridge)

31: PCI 300.0: 0200 Ethernet controller
  [Created at pci.318]
  UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_10ec_8136
  Unique ID: rBUF.dixQz8lyTa0
  Parent ID: H0_h.G5N2l+8xW07
  SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:03:00.0
  SysFS BusID: 0000:03:00.0
  Hardware Class: network
  Model: "Realtek RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller"
  Vendor: pci 0x10ec "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd."
  Device: pci 0x8136 "RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller"
  SubVendor: pci 0x103c "Hewlett-Packard Company"
  SubDevice: pci 0x1444
  Revision: 0x02
  Driver: "r8169"
  Driver Modules: "r8169"
  Device File: eth0
  I/O Ports: 0x2000-0x2fff (rw)
  Memory Range: 0xd0010000-0xd0010fff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xd000ffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
  Memory Range: 0xd0020000-0xd002ffff (ro,non-prefetchable,disabled)
  IRQ: 42 (278435 events)
  HW Address: c8:0a:a9:79:b0:3a
  Link detected: yes
  Module Alias: "pci:v000010ECd00008136sv0000103Csd00001444bc02sc00i00"
  Driver Info #0:
    Driver Status: r8169 is active
    Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe r8169"
  Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
  Attached to: #11 (PCI bridge)
 * Reconfiguring network interfaces... Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
                                                                         [ OK ]
ark@Laptop:~$

I have been trying everything I can find to enable my ar9285 wireless card in a Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop. I still cant enable it. What does all this mean? And what is my next step? HELP! HELP! lol Thanks,
Mark

PS Just noticed the ignoring unknown interface at the end. I had my phone plugged in when I did this so I think thats the "unknown interface"