Comment 18 for bug 441768

I think this might be a dell-laptop regression, well, where it relates to rfkill not registering properly. I'm wondering if a bios update will fix it. (i think there was a ubuntu specific patch for the dell laptops - not sure?)

in any case, i think it's tied into the rfkill detecting the wireless as disabled even though it's not (at least, that looks like it's the problem i'm having here).

wand detects and operates fine, so i doubt it's a "wireless" driver issue, more likely it's a kernel/rkill regression of some sort.