rfkill list; 0: phy0: Wireless LAN; Soft blocked: no. Hard blocked: yes.

[Detlef Lechner]

On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 13:43 +0100, Detlef Lechner wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> '~$ rfkill list; 0: phy0: Wireless LAN; Soft blocked: no. Hard blocked:
> yes." 
> How can I get rid of this hard blockade?
> dmesg: "ipw2200: Radio Kill Switch is On: Kill switch must be turned off
> for wireless networking to work."
> This blockade exists since I dist-upgraded to Maverick. In the past
> using Ubuntu 9.04 I was able to switch on WLAN by pressing a certain
> (soft) key combination which I had programmed myself. The package rfkill
> was not installed.
> This computer MD97600 has no hard kill switch.

/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:06:05.0/ieee802211/phy0/rfkill
contains the value 1. According
to /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.35/Documentation/ABI/stable/sys-class-rfkill this seems to mean: "The transmitter is forced off by something outside of the driver's control."
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