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  1. Bug #644452
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Comment 6 for bug 644452

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Daniel Cardin (daniel-cardin) wrote :

I have a fresh install of 10.10 and I am experimenting the disabled wireless problem as well.
But, on my Dell Vostro 1720, I cannot change the state of the rfkill using unblock all. It remains blocked.

On the other hand, the wireless IS working as using wicd works just fine, where NM fails.

sudo ifconfig eth1 up does not report any error works

daniel@daniel-Vostro-1720:~$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

No change after sudo rfkill unblock all

The chip is a broadcom 4322, but this seems unrelated. Looks like an interaction with the BIOS killswitch info. There was a similar bug which affected Dell laptops that was raised against Lucid : bug #430809