wifi permanently blocked after rebooting with wifi off
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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rfkill (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: rfkill
Problem began abruptly on upgrading to 11.04.
If I turn wireless off, e.g. through Fn-F5 and/or through the network applet on the task bar under Gnome and then reboot, the wireless is unusable / unavailable after rebooting.
symptoms:
(1) wireless is greyed out in the network applet
(2) Fn-F5 now cycles between bluetooth on/off, rather than the four combinations of wireless and bluetooth on/off
As far as I can tell, nothing recovers from the problem without a second reboot. Using
rfkill unblock all
rfkill unblock wifi
followed by rebooting still leaves things broken, in that the indictor light normally associated with Fn-F5 still won't come on when cycling Fn-F5.
however, at this point the applet has wifi ungreyed, and after turning wifi on there, the Fn-F5 behaviour becomes normal again.
(I'm sure I've got the package association wrong; I've put rfkill to start towards the right track)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: rfkill 0.4-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-9-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat May 21 09:36:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: rfkill
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-05-03 (18 days ago)
The same thing happens on my netbook, suggesting this is an awfully wide-impact bug?!