[nmglug] No wireless Ubuntu 11.10

[Nick Frost]

On 12/22/12 16:35, BrianO'Keefe wrote:

> Acer Aspire laptop:
> I've had no problem with wifi until a few days ago when I got a message
> in Network Manager that wireless was disabled by a hardware switch. In
> my case that is fn+f3. However that didn't seem to work at all so I
> googled and did:

What happens if you (with fn +f3 such that wireless is enabled.  Toggle
it off and then on again and then leave the wireless enabled in hardware)

sudo rmmod -f wl

sudo rfkill unblock all

sudo modprobe wl

?

-N



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