Comment 8 for bug 962621

Bug exists in upstream kernel. I'll fix the tags in a minute.

Here's the kernel I'm running right now:

tsj@linux-laptop:~$ uname -r
3.4.0-030400rc3-generic

I loaded the brcmsmac driver (in my setup it's usually blacklisted); running "lspci -k" showed that the kernel driver in use was "bcma-pci-bridge" with some wireless albeit quite weak. Disabling the bluetooth via the applet disconnected the wireless. Here are the results from "rfkill list all" after the wireless disconnected:

0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

I couldn't get the proprietary wl driver to work with this kernel, either through the Additional Drivers option in System Setting or through building it from Broadcom here http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

I got some errors during the build and don't know enough to figure out what's wrong (I've built the wl driver before but on a regular ubuntu kernel).

Anyway, looks like the problem is still there. Let me know if you need more testing, I'd be glad to help if I can.

Cheers