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Yesterday evening, my connection was working perfectly well. Then I connected to my school's wifi this morning, fine. As I was switching it on, my friend pressed my wifi button. I shut down my computer, 3 minutes later, I switched my laptop on again, it showed 'wireless disabled by hardware switch'.

I tried to press it in different ways, like 5 seconds or double. All I could do is switch the bluetooth on and off. Some times the 'by hardware switch' disappears leaving the disabled behind. I'm using ubuntu 11.04, a single OS in Compaq Presario CQ60 104TU. Please help me with this, I have no idea what it is. I searched all over the cyber world but I didn't find anything that helped me.I only had it working fine for a night Please reply.

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    Welcome to Ask Ubuntu! We need more hardware information to help you, can you look at this question and then edit your question adding the information? Oct 13, 2011 at 15:22
  • try switching it on or before booting...It might help... Oct 13, 2011 at 15:39

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I used to have such problems with 11.04. When I have such problems, I make sure that the hardware switch for the WiFi is not off and then I suspend and resume. Every time, it always work. I guess the problem is with the WiFi drivers in the kernels that work out of the box.

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