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Acer Aspire laptop:<br>
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:<br>
$ sudo rfkill list<br>
[sudo] password for ubuntu: <br>
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: yes<br>
Hard blocked: yes<br>
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: yes<br>
Hard blocked: no<br>
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~$ sudo rfkill unblock all<br>
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~$ sudo rfkill list<br>
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: no<br>
Hard blocked: yes<br>
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: no<br>
Hard blocked: no<br>
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Still no wifi because of the hard block on the proprietary driver,
which is installed and activated and in use. (I have uninstalled
that bcrm driver and everything associate with it and then
reinstalled it to no avail).<br>
<br>
However, the first time it happened I rebooted and all was fine, now
I can't recreate the fix, whatever it was.<br>
Right now NetWork manager has the "enable wireless" available yet
when I enable it it grays out and I get this again:<br>
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sudo rfkill list<br>
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: no<br>
Hard blocked: yes<br>
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: no<br>
Hard blocked: no<br>
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Try:<br>
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$ sudo rfkill unblock 0<br>
ubuntu@ubuntu-laptop:~$ sudo rfkill list<br>
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: no<br>
Hard blocked: yes<br>
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN<br>
Soft blocked: no<br>
Hard blocked: no<br>
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So I have an Acer wireless card yet without the broadcom driver I
haven't been able to connect so that acer driver is useless I guess.<br>
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Here's a pic for clarity:<br>
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<img alt="" src="cid:part1.00070803.06030307@cybermesa.com"
width="648" height="578"><br>
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Any help?<br>
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Muchos thanks<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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