disabled wireless cannot be enabled after reboot on EEE PC 1000

[Zarah Mattox]

I'm running Netbook Remix on my EEE PC 1000. After using Fn+F2 to disable wireless and rebooting the system, I cannot enable wireless. I am asked to reboot to enable wireless, but after reboot I get the same error. I find that WLAN was disabled in the bios. After enabling WLAN, my wireless works.

[Sindhudweep Sarkar (sindhudweep-sarkar)]

are you using ath5k or madwifi?

[Zarah Mattox (wawalak)]

lshw gives me the following information:

  *-network
                description: Wireless interface
                product: RaLink
                vendor: RaLink
                physical id: 0
                bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
                logical name: ra0
                version: 00
                serial: 00:15:af:ef:50:37
                width: 32 bits
                clock: 33MHz
                capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
                configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2860 latency=0 module=rt2860sta multicast=yes wireless=RT2860 Wireless

Does that answer your question? If not, please explain where I can find the information you need. Thanks!

[Sindhudweep Sarkar (sindhudweep-sarkar)]

Ahh I thought you were using a different piece of hardware all together ( according to wikipedia some eee pc's use atheros chipsets and some use ralink chipsets http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASUS_Eee_PC#Specifications)

It might be helpful if you post the lines from /var/log/daemon.log that have NetworkManager in them

also the output from
 tail -f /var/log/kern.log

as you disable and (try) to renable the wireless on your netbook.

[Gabe Gorelick (gabegorelick)]

This bug seems very similar to bugs #193970 and #356561. Marking as incomplete until more information is given.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.