-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/13 00:12, James Tait wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently my wife's laptop has been experiencing some wireless > issues - slow performance, drop-outs and the like. We have > numerous wireless-enabled devices in the house and although we have > the occasional blip, none of the other devices seem to be affected > to the same extent, so I figured it was probably related to the > laptop itself and set about trying to figure out what the problem > might be. > > The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450-188 running Ubuntu 12.04 > with the LTS backport kernel from Raring. The original wireless > card in it is a Realtek RTL8191SE. I tried replacing it with the > Atheros-based card from my son's EeePC, but although the card was > apparently recognised, and the ath5k module loaded, the card was > disabled: > > jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: > no Hard blocked: yes > > rfkill unblock has no effect - no error, but the card remains hard > blocked. The wireless key (Fn-F8) simply toggles the soft block, > and the laptop has no hardware switch that I can see. There's a > setting in the BIOS that doesn't seem to have any effect. So I > picked up an Intel IWL4965AGN card on eBay for a couple of quid and > tried that, but the result was the same: > > jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: > no Hard blocked: yes > > I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on. Is it > possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to a > specific kind of wireless card? > > JT >
Is it a uefi + secure booted laptop? If so then it might be that the hardware needs to be registered somehow in order to be valid. Just thinking out loud. - -- You make it, I'll break it! I love my job :) http://www.ubuntu.com http://www.canonical.com -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHeaMgACgkQT5xqyT+h3OjZ9wCfRskytKtqWQk/bBna3Rx00exY v0YAn27UzgGlwHyVB4ZnZGF3zVFnuBeg =QSzN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
