[Ubuntu-US-PA] Wireless Problems in 11.10

[Rick Bryant]

Hi all...hoping for some help here. I just installed 11.10 on an old laptop
of mine. It's an HP Pavilion Dv2200 Series laptop with an Intel
Pro/Wireless 2200 bg internal card. The wireless was working under Windows,
but now it tells me that wireless is disabled by hardware switch. I have a
toggle switch for wireless on the laptop, but it doesn't seem to be
working. Here are the results from a couple of commands. Don't know if
there's anything useful here or not. I also tried using a usb wireless to
connect and get the same result which seems to indicate that it's probably
not a driver issue, rather maybe a bios issue that's preventing the switch
from being toggled on. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Rick

rick at rick:~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network:0 DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci at 0000:06:05.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 05
       serial: 00:15:00:24:d5:1a
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ipw2200 driverversion=1.2.2kmprq
firmware=ABG:9.0.5.27 (Dec 12 2007) latency=128 link=no maxlatency=24
mingnt=3 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
       resources: irq:20 memory:b0106000-b0106fff
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 7
       bus info: pci at 0000:06:07.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:0a:e4:d9:6e:75
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt
10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too
driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=10.203.0.18 latency=128 link=yes
maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:20 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b0109400-b01094ff

rick at rick:~$ dmesg | grep ipw
[    7.785070] libipw: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
[    7.785074] libipw: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <
jketreno at linux.intel.com>
[    8.019916] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver,
1.2.2kmprq
[    8.019920] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[    8.020043] ipw2200 0000:06:05.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 20 (level, low) ->
IRQ 20
[    8.020071] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network
Connection
[    9.986725] ipw2200: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[    9.988932] ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0
802.11a channels)
[   29.548028] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
[   43.368021] ipw2200: Failed to send POWER_MODE: Command timed out.
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