Wireless networks always defaulted to disabled on Acer Aspire 1551

[Steve R. Hastings]

Binary package hint: network-manager

The laptop is an Acer Aspire 1551-5448. Upon boot, Wireless Networking is always disabled in Network Manager.

Manually enabling wireless networking does succeed. I click to make the checkmark appear, and after that WiFi works normally.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: network-manager 0.8.1+git.20100810t184654.ab580f4-0ubuntu2 [modified: usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.41-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Architecture: amd64
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Date: Wed Dec 1 19:03:20 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
Gconf:

IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
IpRoute:
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth1 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.104 metric 2
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth1 scope link metric 1000
 default via 192.168.1.1 dev eth1 proto static
Keyfiles: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
 0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: yes
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: network-manager

[shaunbc (shaun-carter)]

also effects kubuntu 10.10 64 bit

[shauncarter (shaun-54au2)]

This user found a workaround to fix the wireless not enabling on startup. I tried it out and it seems to work:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1685599

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

I have a same problem in Maverick on Acer Aspire 721. After upgrade to Natty it's getting worse: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/791373

[RussianNeuroMancer (russianneuromancer)]

blacklist acer_wmi is working workaround (at least for me on AO721). Now WiFi is works and enabled by default.

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug is missing log files that will aid in dianosing the problem. From a terminal window please run:

apport-collect 683979

and then change the status of the bug back to 'New'.

If, due to the nature of the issue you have encountered, you are unable to run this command, please add a comment stating that fact and change the bug status to 'Confirmed'.

This change has been made by an automated script, maintained by the Ubuntu Kernel Team.

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