Oh, nevermind. After a bit of searching and examination, I finally
discovered that my wi-fi was turned off in my BIOS under "onboard
devices". It's odd that that being the case did not cause wi-fi to be
inaccessible in previous distributions, though.
** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1175567
Title:
wi-fi disabled by hardware switch ASUS Seashell
Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
In dropdown networks menu, "Wi-Fi Networks" is uneselectable, and
below that appears that statement "Wi-Fi is disabled by hardware
switch". Entering rfkill list in a terminal produces the following
output:
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
2: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
6: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Toggling wireless via [Function Key]+F2 produces the following rfkill
list output:
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
3: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
6: hci0:
Bluetoothhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1172151
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Restarting the netbook does not solve the solution. None of the solutions
provided in the bug at address
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1172151 provide
effective results.
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ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-14 (200 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64
(20120823.1)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.68 metric 1
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Tags: raring
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare sudo
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
eth0 802-3-ethernet connected
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
wlan0 802-11-wireless unavailable
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE
WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled disabled
disabled enabled enabled
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