Comment 15 for bug 701259

I had what appeared to be exactly this problem.

When I toggle the fn-f2 key the wirless connection would appear to be enabled but as soon as I click the 'Enable Wirless' option it would disappear and the 'wireless connection disabled by hardware switch' message would come up.

Whilst reading this post and in frustration I rapidly toggled the fn-f2 key (three times I think) and suddenly my wireless connection password dialog popped open and all was fixed.

My wireless connection is now working fine (but I'm not prepared to touch the fn-f2 key again).

I'm running 11.10. The problem only occured about two weeks after installing 11.10 and possible after I accidently toggled the fn-f2 key.

Maybe this isn't exactly the same problem but the symptoms do appear to be identical.