Hi Tony I rebooted and now wireless works! You are a networking angel!
I will see if it works with my home network later today. Thanks soooo much. > [email protected] wrote: >> Thanks again Tony >> >> There is a kill hardware on/off switch for wireless on my machine which >> I never noticed before. I have turned wireless on but still not working. > > Have you tried re-booting after turning it on? > >> Strangely Ubuntu 9.04 was unaffected by this hardware switch. Wireless >> worked out-of-the-box for 9.04! Why is there a wireless kill switch >> anyhow? Seem odd that of all the chipsets on a motherboard wireless >> would have its own user-accessible kill switch. > > The wireless kill switch is present so that you can turn off the radio > for power-saving or say if you're on an airplane. > > That said, trying to explain why it worked in 9.04 and not in 9.10 is a > long story...which I'm going to avoid trying to explain. > > Again it also depends a lot on what hardware you have. > > Regards, > /tony > > >> >> >>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> Hi Tony >>>> >>>> Thanks for the info. Similar bugs have been reported to Ubuntu and >>>> there oddly appears to be no fix yet. >>> That's because it's not a single bug. First, there are many brands of >>> Wi-Fi cards each requiring different drivers. This is then compounded >>> by the fact the various OEMs wire their platforms differently... thus >>> operation of kill switches is dependent on Wi-Fi driver + platform ( >>> and >>> possibly platform driver ). >>> >>> When you report a bug using "ubuntu-bug", information is gathered from >>> your particular machine which can help developers determine your >>> particular problem. >>> >>>> "rfkill list" tells me that wireless LAN is hard blocked. Do you >>>> know how to unblock? >>> Hard-blocked means that a hardware kill switch has been enabled. You >>> should check to see if there's an obvious kill switch that you can >>> disable on your machine. If not, then it's probably an issue with the >>> Wi-Fi driver and/or platform driver. >>> >>> With respect to the HW kill switch, you might want to check the OEM's >>> manual for your specific model. >>> >>> Hope this helps! >>> >>> Regards, >>> /tony >>> >>> >> >> > > _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
