Public bug reported: was running oneiric for a month or two. did upgrade on 2011/09/27. Prior to that date was working fine. Now It works for a few minutes after boot, but after a short time, network-manager has wireless grayed out disabled. It says "wireless disabled by hardware switch". rfkill list says "hard blocked: yes" This laptop has no switch. no work-around I can see, using a patch cable for now.
It's an ath9k driver, on a gateway LT3201 (AMD Nile chipset) ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: linux-image 3.0.0.12.13 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: SB [HDA ATI SB], device 0: ALC271X Analog [ALC271X Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: peter 1869 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'SB'/'HDA ATI SB at 0xd0400000 irq 16' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC271X' Components : 'HDA:10ec0269,1025040d,00100100' Controls : 19 Simple ctrls : 11 Card1.Amixer.info: Card hw:1 'HDMI'/'HDA ATI HDMI at 0xd0110000 irq 19' Mixer name : 'ATI RS690/780 HDMI' Components : 'HDA:1002791a,00791a00,00100000' Controls : 4 Simple ctrls : 1 Card1.Amixer.values: Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0 Capabilities: pswitch pswitch-joined penum Playback channels: Mono Mono: Playback [on] Date: Thu Sep 29 08:34:16 2011 EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1) MachineType: Gateway LT32 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_CA:en PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-12-generic root=UUID=54c7a108-fe97-4f80-95be-ea00fda69e98 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 RelatedPackageVersions: linux-restricted-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A linux-backports-modules-3.0.0-12-generic N/A linux-firmware 1.60 RfKill: 2: phy2: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes SourcePackage: linux UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-09-28 (0 days ago) dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2010 dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD dmi.bios.version: V1.11 dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.board.name: LT32 dmi.board.vendor: Gateway dmi.board.version: V1.11 dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: Gateway dmi.chassis.version: V1.11 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.11:bd05/14/2010:svnGateway:pnLT32:pvrV1.11:rvnGateway:rnLT32:rvrV1.11:cvnGateway:ct10:cvrV1.11: dmi.product.name: LT32 dmi.product.version: V1.11 dmi.sys.vendor: Gateway ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Confirmed ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric running-unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/862348 Title: phantom RFKILL switch disables wireless after boot. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/862348/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs