ubuntu wireless

[Karl F. Larsen]

Asif Iqbal wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
	I  suggest you put your not very new netbook into Google and 
read the success others have had. Here i8s what one happy user 
wrote:

student
Location: urbana, IL
		
questionable notebook 	Date: September 2, 2009
"Personally, I'm rather convinced that my notebook was 
defective. I've had it for a little over a year, and have had 
numerous problems, and have had to send it in several times now.

1)my hardrive died after less than a year

2) it spontaneously shuts down, and at one point would take 
several tries to turn on (like up to 10-20) and would shut 
down in the middle of turning on...

	I hope you got yours used and very cheap.

73 Karl





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