Comment 34 for bug 523143

I have a Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187 Wireless Adapter and it doesn't works after update to Lucid.

It works in Karmic and in Lucid, using the 2.6.31-21 kernel.

With the 2.6.32-22 and the 2.6.33-02063303 kernel versions it fails and looking to the syslog, it's switched off:

May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.041398] rtl8187: Customer ID is 0x00
May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.041454] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::tx
May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.041473] Registered led device: rtl8187-phy0::rx
May 3 21:56:20 my-laptop kernel: [ 19.043255] rtl8187: wireless switch is off

rfkill reports that the device is harware blocked but my laptop doesn't have a physical switch to control the wireless device.

I found a kernel bug that could be related to this problem:

https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14743