New 11.10 install wireless disabled by hardware switch

Hi all...hoping for some help here. I just installed 11.10 on an old laptop of mine. It's an HP Pavilion Dv2200 Series laptop with an Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 bg internal card. The wireless was working under Windows, but now it tells me that wireless is disabled by hardware switch. I have a toggle switch for wireless on the laptop, but it doesn't seem to be working. Here are the results from a couple of commands. Don't know if there's anything useful here or not. I also tried using a usb wireless to connect and get the same result which seems to indicate that it's probably not a driver issue, rather maybe a bios issue that's preventing the switch from being toggled on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Rick

rick@rick:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network:0 DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:06:05.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 05
       serial: 00:15:00:24:d5:1a
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=128 link=no maxlatency=24 mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:20 memory:b0106000-b0106fff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 7
       bus info: pci@0000:06:07.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:0a:e4:d9:6e:75
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=10.203.0.18 latency=128 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:20 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b0109400-b01094ff

rick@rick:~$ dmesg | grep ipw
[ 7.785070] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[ 7.785074] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <email address hidden>
[ 8.019916] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.2kmprq
[ 8.019920] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 8.020043] ipw2200 0000:06:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
[ 8.020071] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 9.986725] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[ 9.988932] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
[ 29.548028] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
[ 43.368021] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.