I cant make my wifi button switch on in ubuntu 12.10

Asked by hardik juneja

hi
wifi on my hp-dv6 has suddenly stop working. it didn't get connected and when i checked my network setting i found that when i try to make the wireless button on it remain off. and nothing happens

please help em solve this problem

Output from: sudo lspci --
...
0a:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)
...

Output from: sudo lshw -class network --

*-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Wireless-N 2230
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: c4
       serial: 68:5d:43:c1:6f:dd
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.5.0-21-generic firmware=18.168.6.1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:46 memory:d4500000-d4501fff

Output from: sudo rfkill list all --

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
4: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

i also tried sudo rfkill unblock all
it dont work

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#1

Do you have a switch to enable/disable WiFi?
Do you dual boot the system?

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hardik juneja (hardikjuneja-hj) said :
#2

my switch is enabled
and yes it is a dual boot

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#3

In Windows device manager, disable the ability of the device to wake up the system as well as disable power management.

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hardik juneja (hardikjuneja-hj) said :
#4

can to tell me how to do that

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said :
#5

Right click My Computer -> Manage
Device Manager, expand network devices, right click WiFi adapter -> properties

You'll find one of the tabs has the 2 options

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hardik juneja (hardikjuneja-hj) said :
#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.