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2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes-> Wireless Network Controller Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 not working on Lenovo V570-1066A9U in Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by Sheila Pham

Like many others, I recently installed Ubuntu 11.10 on my Lenovo V570-1066A9U as a dual-boot with Windows 7. Wireless works fine on Windows. I've tried enabling wireless on Ubuntu and even manually entered in a network to get a connection. I've looked up the problem and have seen many solutions but haven't tried any yet because I'm not sure which to do. (And just incase: I don't have access to a wired connection for my laptop.) Any ideas?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

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Sheila Pham (sheilavpham) said : 		#2

*-network
     description: Wireless interface
     product: Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150
     vendor: Intel Corporation
     physical id: 0
     bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
     logical name: wlan0
     version: 67
     serial: 40:25:c2:2e:7d:74
     width: 64 bits
     clock: 33 MHz
     capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
     configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn driverversion=3.0.0-12-genericfirmware=41.28.5.1 build 33926 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
     resources: irq:42 memory:d0500000-d0501fff
*-network
     description: Ethernet interface
     product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
     vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
     physical id: 0
     bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
     logical name: eth0
     version: 06
     serial: f0:de:f1:60:77:53
     size: 10Mbit/s
     capacity: 1Gbit/s
     width: 64 bits
     clock: 33 MHz
     capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
     configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver-r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=half firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
     resources: irq:41 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d0404000-d0404fff memory:d0400000-d0403fff
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux ubuntu 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:56:25 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
     Soft blocked: no
     Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
     Soft blocked: no
     Hard blocked: no
2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
     Soft blocked: yes
     Hard blocked: no
[ 0.547852] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS_OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 10.413138] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 41.28.5.1 build 33826

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Sheila Pham (sheilavpham) said : 		#3

I viewed Nick's question since he had the exact same problem (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/192546) and resolved my problem with Mark's solution. The wireless works, now. Thank you, actionparsnip! (And thank you, Mark!)