I've been watching this thread as well as #836865, with interest because I have an E420 with the same issue. I finally just did the recommended steps to blacklist the acer_wmi and forgot about it.
But I dual-boot this machine and a Lenovo update prompted me to update the BIOS. While reading the BIOS update page - http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS014906 - I noticed this statement which applies to both the E420 and the E520: (Fix) Fix an issue of wireless network to load unexpected Acer driver. Since I did update the BIOS, if you think this is relevant and can tell me how to undo the rmmod rfkill blacklist steps so I can test it, I'll be happy to. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/826784 Title: [ThinkPad Edge E520] Wireless is always soft-blocked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/826784/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
