Greetings David, I have just booted up ubuntu on a Lenovo ideapad v570 and am facing the same situation. This is my first experience using Linux. Could you explain how to get to where these commands are typed in? Thanks for the post!
-Chris On May 11, 10:35 pm, David John <[email protected]> wrote: > This process enableswirelesstill the next reboot > > sudo service network-manager stop > sudo rmmod acer_wmi > sudo modprobe acer_wmi > sudo rfkill unblock all > (Checked that everything was unblocked) > sudo service network-manager start > > Now, instead of "Wirelessisdisabledby thehardwareswitch" status > in NM, the message will be "wirelessisdisabled" > Enablewirelessfrom NM > sudo rmmod -f acer_wmi > > Wirelessnetworks will be detected and connected > > To make this change permanent, > sudo su > echo "blacklist acer_wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf > exit > > This is the discussion thread that helped > mosthttp://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1745681 -- "Freedom is the only law". "Freedom Unplugged" http://www.ilug-tvm.org You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ilug-tvm" group. To control your subscription visit http://groups.google.co.in/group/ilug-tvm/subscribe To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For details visit the google group page: http://groups.google.com/group/ilug-tvm?hl=en
