Karmic - "Enable Wireless" button greyed out and won't enable

[Theatre-X]

Apparently I am not the only one who has been having this issue. I was having a few problems with my wireless and I decided to check and see if I could fix them by clicking the "Enable Wireless" option in the Network Manager. I went to try and click it to obviously re-enable it but the option was greyed out. I tried rebooting, shutting down, and even a damned reinstall. I tested the card with System Testing and it detected it and I also tried it under OpenSUSE 11.1 and it detected it. So now I have to downgrade to Jaunty. Lovely.

Here's the forum topic that will back me up on this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1063057

Meh...

[Theatre-X (theatrex)]

And yes the Wireless switch on my laptop was, indeed, on.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Please add your kernel version (output of uname -a) and attach the output of lspci -vvnn

Also, for reference purposes, what make and model is your laptop. Better to have that here than in a linked forum thread.

[Theatre-X (theatrex)]

Linux Katormix 2.6.31-16-generic #53-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 8 04:01:29 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L355.

lspci -vvnn output is attached as well.

[Rich Wales (richw)]

Also happening to me on a Dell Latitude D620. The wifi sometimes works -- but if I disable it with the switch on the side of the machine (e.g., if I'm on a hard-wired network connection and don't want to go wireless), it won't come back if I use the switch to reenable it -- even if I suspend/resume.

Output of "uname -a":

Linux rde-richw-2 2.6.31-17-generic #54-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 10 16:20:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Output of "lspci -vvnn" attached.

[Theatre-X (theatrex)]

This is sill happening in Maverick as well. In the same fashion. This doesn't seem to happen in Fedora though.