Comment 33 for bug 464559

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WolphFang (mjoyner-vbservices) wrote : Re: [Bug 464559] Re: ifconfig returns SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 when running commad ifconfig wlan0 up

Chase Douglas wrote:
> @TDB:
>
> I'll only make this comment once. The issues outlined in this bug seem
> to be hardware issues. We have diagnosed them down to hard blocks in the
> hardware that are keeping wifi from being enabled. There is nothing that
> can be done from within linux of any form to turn off a hard block. If
> the issues were that there was a soft block, we could look into ways in
> linux to flip the soft block, but that's not the case here.
>
I have a laptop here that I upgraded to 9.10, this issue then suddenly
appeared. This issue did not exist prior to 9.10.