[Dell Vostro 1530] Turning off wi-fi with the hotkey (Fn+F11) permanently kills wi-fi
Bug #775176 reported by
Jeff Lane
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #775281: [Dell Latitude 2120/Vostro 1015/1014] Turning off wi-fi with hotkey seems to permenantly disable wi-fi.
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Bug Description
Discovered during Natty cert testing on the Vostro 1530. Like the other Vostro I tried, when I turn off wireless using the hot-key combo (on this one it's Fn+F11) that's it for wireless. From that point forward there appears to be no way to turn wireless back on. The network manager always shows wireless as being "Disabled by physical switch" but no amount of hitting the hot key again and again will turn the wireless card back on.
Also tried rebooting, pulling power, and BIOS, but the wireless is gone for good as far as I can tell.
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| Jeff Lane (bladernr) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in linux (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Invalid |
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Somehow, this got submitted twice... this is a duplicate and superfluous