wi-fi disabled by hardware switch ASUS Seashell

[Daygan]

In dropdown networks menu, "Wi-Fi Networks" is uneselectable, and below that appears that statement "Wi-Fi is disabled by hardware switch". Entering rfkill list in a terminal produces the following output:

1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes
2: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
6: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

Toggling wireless via [Function Key]+F2 produces the following rfkill list output:

1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: yes
2: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
3: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
6: hci0: Bluetoothhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1172151
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

Restarting the netbook does not solve the solution. None of the solutions provided in the bug at address https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1172151 provide effective results.
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ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-14 (200 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120823.1)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.0.1 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.0.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.0.68 metric 1
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
Package: network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Tags: raring
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-27 (5 days ago)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare sudo
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 wlan0 802-11-wireless unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.8.0 connected enabled disabled disabled enabled enabled

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I need a solution to fix this problem. Function+F2 does not fix the problem. This issue arose only after an update from Ubuntu 12.10 to 13.04. Can someone help me?

[Daygan (sheerzeal)]

Oh, nevermind. After a bit of searching and examination, I finally discovered that my wi-fi was turned off in my BIOS under "onboard devices". It's odd that that being the case did not cause wi-fi to be inaccessible in previous distributions, though.