On 02/15/2012 06:29 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Mike Connors wrote: > >> Rich - I found two articles that talk about this wireless radio being soft >> blocked. You just need to install rfkill either through the package >> manager or command line with "apt-get install rfkill" then run the "rfkill >> list" command. > Mike, > > I'll work on this this evening. I can use the ethernet connection, I > hope!, to get the rfkill; since wireless connection isn't working I cannot > use either the package manager or the command line to access it from outside > here. > >> If when you run the "frkill list" and no "wireless lan" interface is >> listed than you've got an incompatible / non-functional driver problem. > Since the Intel Web site says that this radio chip has been in the kernel > since 2.6.24 I would suspect it's a ubuntu glitch. Obviously, the older > Toshiba has a different radio since there was no problem with xubuntu-11.10 > on it. > > I have a ton of client work to get out today, and Frontier Comm. changed > my IP address twice last evening (7 and 8 pm) and the cron script changes > only one domain at namecheap.com. This is the 8th IP address since last > Wednesday evening at 9:07pm when they took away my static IP address. Makes > no sense to change it this frequently, but it's out of my control even > though it really ticks me off. So, I won't get back to getting the Sony > working wirelessly until after work. > > Thanks, > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug I highly doubt it is related to a bug in Ubuntu since I have the same hardware in my laptop and have zero issues. If you would like to join us on Freenode #ubuntu-us-or we have a number of people from Canonical's various teams and experienced users who could troubleshoot this for you.
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