ubuntu wireless

[Tom H]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:

> 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

>  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.

Such a positive response! I am sure that we could find similar
comments for just about any product, laptop or not. And it is not a
netbook...

You might want to try upgrading to Karmic (with the WARNING that it is
still in beta) because it has a newer version of wireless-tools 29.2
that includes /sbin/rfkill, which MAY help ("rfkill unblock...").

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/karmic/en/man1/rfkill.1.html

If you grep for rfkill in your kernel config, you will see that it
they are enabled, which, I assume, will allow you to use /sbin/rfkill
(I assume). (Same in Karmic.)

If you choose to upgrade:
aptitude update
aptitude dist-upgrade
do-release-upgrade -d -m desktop