I have practically the same problem on my Natty Narwhal, running on Fujitsu Siemens Amilo PA3515 with an Atheros AR5001 wireless module.
Whenever I did "rfkill unblock all", my wireless would go from Soft blocked: Yes Hard blocked: No to Soft blocked: No Hard blocked: Yes Tantalizing, isn't it? In the end, I created the following script as a (barely acceptable) solution: sudo rmmod -f ath5k sudo rfkill unblock all sudo odprobe ath5k I hope this script helps someone. And if anybody knows how to make this permanent, that will be much appreciated. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/478036 Title: ath5k gets hard blocked status in rfkill after turning off and then on To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/478036/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
