ubuntu wireless

[Asif Iqbal]

Hi I just received a new laptop hp 6730b. It has touchscreen buttons for
wifi , volume and others with leds as well

I notices the `Enable Wireless' is grayed out. So then I looked at dmesg.

As per the excerpt from dmesg I need to turn off the wifi kill switch for
the wifi to work

[   20.145801] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   21.377990] iwlagn: Radio Frequency Kill Switch is On:
[   21.377992] Kill switch must be turned off for wireless networking to
work.

Here is the detail of the dmesg http://pastebin.com/f70cdad

So I tap'd the touchscreen led of the wifi and it turned orange and dmes
gave me this weird message

Oct 16 17:09:01 ghar-iqbala kernel: [ 6356.904173] usb 3-1: USB disconnect,
address 7

So then I tap'd the touchscreen led of the wifi again and it turned blue
with the same usb related
message

Oct 16 17:09:08 ghar-iqbala kernel: [ 6363.976230] usb 3-1: new full speed
USB device using uhci_hcd and address 8
Oct 16 17:09:08 ghar-iqbala kernel: [ 6364.142593] usb 3-1: configuration #1
chosen from 1 choice

Looks like kernel got confused.

Here is the `sudo lspci -v' of the intel driver.

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh]
Network Connection
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1211
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 2298
    Memory at d8700000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
    Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0
Enable+
    Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
    Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number c8-74-69-ff-ff-65-1e-00
    Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
    Kernel modules: iwlagn

Any suggestion how to fix this?

Thanks

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