Output from "rfkill list" after power-on:
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wwan: Wireless WAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
After pressing Fn+F6:
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wwan: Wireless WAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
It seems that things are slightly better now, in that in this state, the
right-button menu in the NetworkManager applet has "Enable Mobile
Broadband" unchecked and greyed-out. The left-button menu still lists
my mobile broadband connection, though, and choosing it results in the
unhelpful notification "GSM network / Disconnected".
Things get stranger if I press Fn+F6 again, in that this gives me the
following from "rfkill list":
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wwan: Wireless WAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
and leaves the light off. This bit probably isn't NetworkManager's
fault, though.
Incidentally, I'm currently running network-manager
0.8.1+git.20100810t184654.ab580f4-0ubuntu3~nmt3~lucid. Since I'm now
running Ubuntu 10.10, I should probably update to something newer.
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Title:
Mobile broadband fails uninformatively when wireless disabled
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