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Wireless is disabled by hardware switch

Asked by Daniel Shepherd

Hi guys! I have Sony Vaio with 70GB Hardrive and 1GB memory.

First off i need to say that yes i turned on the external switch for wireless and i have looked through all the other threads i could find and none of them have helped me.

I recently updated my laptop to natty 11.04 Kernel Linux 2.6.38-8-generic GNOME 2.32.1
And as it says in the title, my wireless has been disabled by hardware switch

when i type in the terminal : rfkill list-- i get ;
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

Please help I've had this problem for a while now.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Try:

sudo rfkill unblock all

May help

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Daniel Shepherd (imparatul7) said : 		#2

Thanks for the quick reply!

I tried that and it asked me for the password: I typed it in but then nothing happened

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

does the wifi now find networks?

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Daniel Shepherd (imparatul7) said : 		#4

No. Do I need to restart the computer for it to work?

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Daniel Shepherd (imparatul7) said : 		#5

Actually Since i restarted it, it does find wifi network but not the right one

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Daniel Shepherd (imparatul7) said : 		#6

I still need help with this problem!

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Brandon Lee (brandonlee) said : 		#7

I have the same problem running a touchsmart tx2 1025 dx. I had the device working, with 11.04, when I was using ubuntu dual boot with win 7. I had my HD wiped and installed 10.04, upgraded to 11.04, now its now working....

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#8

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Daniel Shepherd (imparatul7) said : 		#9

Can anyone help?

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Shriramana Sharma (jamadagni) said : 		#10

Hey man, at least on my Lenovo Ideapad Z570 I have found a workaround. Please see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/780040/comments/6 -- donno that it will work on your Sony laptop, but probably a similar procedure using rfkill list all to find out the offending module and then either blacklisting it in modprobe.conf or rmmod-ing it in rc.local would be indicated. Best of luck in solving your problem.

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Daniel Shepherd (imparatul7) said : 		#11

Can anyone help?

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Shriramana Sharma (jamadagni) said : 		#12

Hi -- did you try using the older mainline kernel 2.6.37-6 as I have suggested in the Launchpad bug? I have given the steps to be followed at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/780040/comments/7

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mario giaramita (iyoddle) said : 		#13

ran sudo rfkill unblock all
command line worked flawlessly without reboot.
Remember if you are on a 32 bit machine as my HP dv 4000, 11.04.1 is about as high as I can go..this problem developed when I went to 11.10 ONERIC (absolutely horrble , cn't handle 32 bit (1MB ram,100GB HD)
unfortunately I had bought a toshiba satellite i3 chip, hdmi, usb3, the works. Only had it two weeks and my home was broken into and goodbye new laptop PLUS my fujipix A300. that's all they took. I'm investigating with the local PD.

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