Wireless doesn't reenable with hardware switch until it is disabled and then enabled

[exutable]

Ubuntu 9.04

I have a HP HDX16-1370US Laptop, when I reenable wireless with my hardware switch, it doesn't reenable until I disable and then enable wireless via the networkmanager-applet.

In other words there are no wireless networks discovered even though the checkbox for wireless is checked, then I disable and reenable using the checkbox and suddenly wireless networks are discovered.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

please attach valuable info by running:

apport-collect 432449

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

that said, without that info i would lean to this being a dupe of bug 441161

[exutable (dane-shea)]

Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:

DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: network-manager None
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[exutable (dane-shea)]

installed wicd to work with something else but that was after this bug of course.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

apport-collect did not attach more info? you need network-manager installed

[exutable (dane-shea)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: network-manager 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[exutable (dane-shea)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: network-manager 0.7.1~rc4.1.cf199a964-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-14-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

[emilio (emiliomaggio)]

Architecture: i386
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IpRoute:
 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto kernel scope link src 92.40.89.34
 169.254.0.0/16 dev ppp0 scope link metric 1000
 default via 10.64.64.64 dev ppp0 proto static
Package: network-manager 0.8~a~git.20091013t193206.679d548-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare
WpaSupplicantLog:

[emilio (emiliomaggio)]

I can confirm this bug in 9.04 also in 9.10 the situation got worst. Before I could fix it by switching off and on the wireless network in the the networkmanager applet, now the tick box is not enabled and the only solution is to reboot.

[emilio (emiliomaggio)]

Updating to the latest bios (A14 on my Dell E4300) and kernel solved the problem