I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 on Dell Inspiron mini 1018. I disabled the wireless network and it does not enable again. It reports that wireless is disabled by hardware switch
. Pressing the hardware switch and any combinations on the keyboard has no response. Neither does sudo rfkill unblock all
have any effect.
Rfkill list
gives the following results:
0: hci0 bluetooth ...........
1: dell-wifi:wireless lan
soft blocked yes
hard blocked yes
2: dell bluetooth ...........
3: phy0; wireless lan
soft blockes no
hard blocked ye
sudo iwconfig wlan0
gives:
ieee 802.11bgn essid off/any
mode:managed access point:not associated tx-power=off
retry long limit:7 rts thr=2347 b fragment thr:off
power management:on
sudo lshw -c network
returns:
*network DISABLED
...................