This bug appears to be linked to combination of ATH5K driver and Atheros AR5007EG wifi card.
I swapped the wifi card from another netbook, An Atheros AR9285 model. After power up it has ATH9K loaded instead of ATH5K. The RFKILL LIST displays both soft and hard blocked as NO Press the FN-F2 and Soft Blocked changes to YES a couple of seconds later Hard Blocked changes to YES also Wireless is now disabled press again and Soft Blocked returns to NO a couple of seconds later Hard Blocked changes to NO also wireless connection is restored. This is the expected operation Putting the AR5007EG card back in returns laptop to faulty state of operation.... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1080045 Title: 168c:001c Wireless get stuck in Hard Blocked To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1080045/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
