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  1. Bug #882779
  2. Comment #15

Comment 15 for bug 882779

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Raymond Martin (laseray) wrote : Re: WLAN card cannot be activated, it is hard-rfkill-ed and fn-f2 does not work

Workaround for this bug in my case is to blacklist the specific wireless kernel module and fall back on phys0 that was being used in version priro to 11.10. I filed a duplicate bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/874229

I just added the following to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and after reboot or unload/reload modules all is well.

# hp wireless issues under 3.x kernel?
 blacklist hp_wmi

I did this for two laptops with almost the same specs.

Check and see if you have more than one module for wifi trying to load and figure out the proper name to blacklist, not the same as indicated by rfkill necessarily.