Unblocking hardware switch WiFi
On my Toshiba laptop, Ubuntu does not seem to be able to hard blocking/unblocking the WiFi card.
I dual-boot with Windows 7 and usually I leave WiFi on. However, yesterday I disabled WiFi while using Windows and when I rebooted into Ubuntu, I couldn't unblock the WiFi. I had to reboot into Windows to re-enable the WiFi.
rfkill unblock all and rfkill block all do not work for the hardware switch. Fn+F8 toggles the soft block of the WiFi, whereas on Windows it toggles the hardware switch.
This is the result of lspci | grep Network
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Is there a way to enable Ubuntu to hard block/unblock the WiFi card?
wireless
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On my Toshiba laptop, Ubuntu does not seem to be able to hard blocking/unblocking the WiFi card.
I dual-boot with Windows 7 and usually I leave WiFi on. However, yesterday I disabled WiFi while using Windows and when I rebooted into Ubuntu, I couldn't unblock the WiFi. I had to reboot into Windows to re-enable the WiFi.
rfkill unblock all and rfkill block all do not work for the hardware switch. Fn+F8 toggles the soft block of the WiFi, whereas on Windows it toggles the hardware switch.
This is the result of lspci | grep Network
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Is there a way to enable Ubuntu to hard block/unblock the WiFi card?
wireless
edited Feb 14 at 22:21
Kevin Bowen
14.7k155970
asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:07
To DoTo Do
8,72194992
add a comment |
On my Toshiba laptop, Ubuntu does not seem to be able to hard blocking/unblocking the WiFi card.
I dual-boot with Windows 7 and usually I leave WiFi on. However, yesterday I disabled WiFi while using Windows and when I rebooted into Ubuntu, I couldn't unblock the WiFi. I had to reboot into Windows to re-enable the WiFi.
rfkill unblock all and rfkill block all do not work for the hardware switch. Fn+F8 toggles the soft block of the WiFi, whereas on Windows it toggles the hardware switch.
This is the result of lspci | grep Network
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Is there a way to enable Ubuntu to hard block/unblock the WiFi card?
wireless
edited Feb 14 at 22:21
Kevin Bowen
14.7k155970
asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:07
To DoTo Do
8,72194992
On my Toshiba laptop, Ubuntu does not seem to be able to hard blocking/unblocking the WiFi card.
I dual-boot with Windows 7 and usually I leave WiFi on. However, yesterday I disabled WiFi while using Windows and when I rebooted into Ubuntu, I couldn't unblock the WiFi. I had to reboot into Windows to re-enable the WiFi.
rfkill unblock all and rfkill block all do not work for the hardware switch. Fn+F8 toggles the soft block of the WiFi, whereas on Windows it toggles the hardware switch.
This is the result of lspci | grep Network
04:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Is there a way to enable Ubuntu to hard block/unblock the WiFi card?
wireless
wireless
edited Feb 14 at 22:21
Kevin Bowen
14.7k155970
asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:07
To DoTo Do
8,72194992
edited Feb 14 at 22:21
Kevin Bowen
14.7k155970
asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:07
To DoTo Do
8,72194992
edited Feb 14 at 22:21
Kevin Bowen
14.7k155970
edited Feb 14 at 22:21
Kevin Bowen
14.7k155970
edited Feb 14 at 22:21
Kevin Bowen
14.7k155970
14.7k155970
asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:07
To DoTo Do
8,72194992
asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:07
To DoTo Do
8,72194992
asked Mar 1 '13 at 23:07
To DoTo Do
8,72194992
8,72194992
add a comment |
add a comment |
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It is a bug in udev
Hummm, Suspend -> resume for me it works
It also cured the fact my altgr key was not functioning
My guess is event listener is stacking events and there is a lock preventing the queue from depiling the events. Suspend -> resume seems to «unfreeze» the queue...
I had a lot of problems related to this one... I guess taking the action (like rfkill unblock all) might be necessary too...
answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
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Could you add a link to the bug?
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It is a bug in udev
Hummm, Suspend -> resume for me it works
It also cured the fact my altgr key was not functioning
My guess is event listener is stacking events and there is a lock preventing the queue from depiling the events. Suspend -> resume seems to «unfreeze» the queue...
I had a lot of problems related to this one... I guess taking the action (like rfkill unblock all) might be necessary too...
answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
user1458574user1458574
111
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Could you add a link to the bug?
– Braiam
Sep 2 '13 at 21:56
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It is a bug in udev
Hummm, Suspend -> resume for me it works
It also cured the fact my altgr key was not functioning
My guess is event listener is stacking events and there is a lock preventing the queue from depiling the events. Suspend -> resume seems to «unfreeze» the queue...
I had a lot of problems related to this one... I guess taking the action (like rfkill unblock all) might be necessary too...
answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
user1458574user1458574
111
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Could you add a link to the bug?
– Braiam
Sep 2 '13 at 21:56
add a comment |
It is a bug in udev
Hummm, Suspend -> resume for me it works
It also cured the fact my altgr key was not functioning
My guess is event listener is stacking events and there is a lock preventing the queue from depiling the events. Suspend -> resume seems to «unfreeze» the queue...
I had a lot of problems related to this one... I guess taking the action (like rfkill unblock all) might be necessary too...
answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
user1458574user1458574
111
It is a bug in udev
Hummm, Suspend -> resume for me it works
It also cured the fact my altgr key was not functioning
My guess is event listener is stacking events and there is a lock preventing the queue from depiling the events. Suspend -> resume seems to «unfreeze» the queue...
I had a lot of problems related to this one... I guess taking the action (like rfkill unblock all) might be necessary too...
answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
user1458574user1458574
111
answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
user1458574user1458574
111
answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
user1458574user1458574
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answered Sep 2 '13 at 21:04
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Could you add a link to the bug?
– Braiam
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Could you add a link to the bug?
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