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

Can you give the output of:

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

Thanks

You should also use the wired connection to get full updated.

 *-network DISABLED
       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:ab:e2:74
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn driverversion=3.0.0-12-generic firmware=41.28.5.1 build 33926 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:43 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:bb:6d:61
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       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=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8168e-2.fw ip=192.168.0.4 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:40 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: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
[ 0.543342] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 23.321219] iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 41.28.5.1 build 33926

If you boot to Windows and in device manager stop the power management and also uncheck the devices ability to wake up the device.

The following Terminal output that you sent us, shows the configuration issue on your PC:

1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no

Please read the last remark from Ultraman at the following location:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=924554

Ultraman solved it by blacklisting the acer_wmi module, which your computer has loaded into memory.

Please copy-paste the following command into the Terminal and then press <ENTER>:

gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

Using the gedit editor, please ADD the following configuration line into the file:

blacklist acer_wmi

Using the gedit editor, SAVE the change to the

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf file.

Then REBOOT and retest wireless. This blacklist operation should make the change permanent, even after rebooting.

This should force the Linux kernel to stop loading the acer_wmi module, which is probably causing the kernel to soft block your wireless card via the INVALID "acer-wireless: Wireless LAN" interface.

acer-wireless is for ACER computers, not for Lenovo machines....

http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/laptop/457107-lenovo-b560.html

Read the remarks from forumuser Bilincaltix....