12.04, Dell Vostro 1720, and good experiences?

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 14:44 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 6 August 2012 13:34, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > Hence my question: Has anyone tried this combination and found it
> > worked?
> Apparently it does, with a little tweaking
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11896391#poststop

Thanks, Steve. I went to the link and my heart leapt - it looked like
exactly what I needed!

But when I booted off my 12.04 USB stick again and checked, it turned
out 12.04 was already using the right kernel, and iwlwifi was already
installed, so sadly that's not it :-(

However, more info: Running "rfkill list all" shows this:

   0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft-blocked: yes
        Hard-blocked: yes
   0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft-blocked: no
        Hard-blocked: no

I've found some suggestions about using rfkill to unblock and about
removing the dell-wifi module. I'll try those. Any *other* ideas
welcome.

BTW, remember that this laptop works *perfectly* with 10.10, and *no*
physical changes of any kind are being made - just booting off a USB
stick. The wireless switch, for example, is NOT off.

Regards, K.

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