I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my Lenovo Netbook S10-3. Everything is working so good, wifi, camera, and even my usb broadband. But one time I turned off my wifi using wifi switch (it's a hardware switch locating in left side of the laptop) and turn it back on it didn't work now. And I can't even connect to the other wifi network. In network settings it said "wireless is disabled by hardware switch" but I already turn it on, even I used Fn+F5 which is command for On/Off on wifi it didn't work. anyone can help me on this?
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 60:eb:69:ce:d6:31
inet addr:192.168.1.7 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::62eb:69ff:fece:d631/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:491 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:265756 (265.7 KB) TX bytes:67776 (67.7 KB)
Interrupt:42 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:720 (720.0 B) TX bytes:720 (720.0 B)
I can't used the link because i totally delete my windows.
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 60:eb:69:ce:d6:31
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.1.7 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0520000-f0520fff memory:f0510000-f051ffff memory:f0540000-f055ffff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:09:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: ac:81:12:48:e6:44
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.100.82.38 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:18 memory:f0100000-f0103fff
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
ifconfigcommand from the console. – Marc Boisvert Sep 22 '11 at 14:42sudo lshw -class networkas well asrfkill list. Thanks. – fossfreedom♦ Sep 22 '11 at 15:19