[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1264863] Re: WiFi disabled in BIOS upon installation of Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-02 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Jeffrey Warren, thank you for your comments. Just to clarify, you initially had the WiFi enabled in BIOS, booted into Ubuntu and updated, then booted into the BIOS and found it disabled? ** Package changed: network-manager (Ubuntu) = linux (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) Status:

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1264863] Re: WiFi disabled in BIOS upon installation of Ubuntu 13.10

2014-01-01 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Jeffrey Warren, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. In this scenario, Ubuntu not being able to override the BIOS to enable the WiFi is not a bug in Ubuntu unfortunately, but simply a fundamental fact of how Ubuntu/operating systems and the BIOS interoperate. There is no