The behavior in comments #16 was confirmed by several reboots. However, afterwards I wanted to reenable wlan by unblacklisting acer-wmi (situation as in comment #12). But even several reboots and shutdowns did not bring wlan back (in Natty with your patched kernel). The "phy0: Wireless LAN" was always "Hard blocked: yes. ". Toggling hw-switch did not help. Then I booted into Oneiric (acer-wmi blacklisted) with kernel 3.0.0-13 and there was no wlan again (it almost freaked me out ;-) ). Something was hardblocked all the time. Even an external USB-wlan-card, which helped me out in the past when the acer-wmi was annoying me, did not work anymore. In the end a combination of loading/unloading acer-wmi and toggling the hw-switch did the trick. Since then, wlan works again, even in Natty with your patched kernel....
I don't know if anything of this is usefull to you, but I though providing some info should not hurt... ;-) Let me know if you need any logs or a rerun of some procedures. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/668234 Title: acer_wmi is blocking wireless on Ideapad S12 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/668234/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
