Here is the output of lshw -c net on an HP suffering this problem:
*-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe vendor: RaLink physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 00 serial: 1c:65:9d:59:4c:bc width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=2.6.35-27-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn resources: irq:17 memory:feaf0000-feafffff
Here is the output of lshw -c net on an HP suffering this problem:
*-network DISABLED
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion= 2.6.35- 27-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn feaf0000- feafffff
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: RaLink
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 1c:65:9d:59:4c:bc
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:17 memory: