Dell WiFi key Fn+F2 breaks Intel WiFi on Natty

[NoOp]

On 08/14/2011 03:28 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On 08/14/2011 05:08 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 08/14/2011 01:59 PM, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> My HP G60 has that issue. I discovered quite by accident after I'd
>> disabled in Win7 & booted to 10.10 that Wifi wouldn't turn on. So I
>> booted back to Win7 to test; after leaving it on in Win7 & then
>> rebooting back to 10.10 all was working again. Pretty odd & I've not
>> bothered to dig into the problem, but I suspect it has something to do
>> with Win7 setting a flag in the bios.
> 
> I believe you guys are on about an old bug in the Kernel that should
> have been fixed by now, that bug is almost 9 months old now, but in case
> it's not fixed in Ubuntu yet try:
> 
> sudo rfkill unblock wifi
> 
> Somebody else mentioned the wifi button and the bios, that was a fix
> too, to disable the wifi button in the bios /should/ fix the problem.
> If it's hardblocked you'll need to remove the driver, rfkill and then
> add the driver again.
> 
> I would search for an Ubuntu bug but searching for something like this
> is going to be so ambiguous and I don't have the time right now but when
> I get done working I'll be more then glad to try and track down a bug
> for you and post it back to the list.
> 

Thanks Jordan. I'll check on my HP later this evening; I've the most
recent Maverick & Natty kernals on the laptop.