rfkill has blocked wifi drivers and will not allow unblocking

[Murali Krishnan]

Binary package hint: rfkill

My Wireless driver was working perfectly under lucid. However, upon upgrade to maverick, the network manager applet constantly displays 'device not ready'. When i run 'sudo ifconfig wlan0 up', it gives 'SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill'

I tried running 'rfkill list all' (both with and without sudo). The cursor just goes to the next line and keeps blinking. i tried leaving it on for about half an hour in a terminal window and nothing happens. The same result for 'rfkill unblock all' (again, with and without sudo).

So right now, I'm pretty much stuck with no way to get my wireless working.

Wireless Controller : Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)

Other relevant files attached.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: rfkill 0.4-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Oct 11 23:12:08 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_IN
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rfkill