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Comment 22 for bug 730972

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Johanna Hofinger (j-hofinger) wrote : Re: IdeaPad U160 Broadcom wifi not connecting

I had to setup two Lenovo U160 with 2.6.38-9-generic-pae & Natty. Wireless worked for one of those two by blacklisting acer_wmi and reboot. (Activated Wireless on preinstalled Win7 before). The other one would show an strange behaviour after login:

0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no

Rfkill unblock all would imidiately freeze natty (actually network manager trying to connect after ideapad_wlan was unblocked (???). [Tried to install Broadcom STA, b43 etc,]. Tried Win7 again, no WLAN there (which worked before!!) as well. Uninstalled Win7 driver, Reinstallation not possible. Reset BIOS (whick always showed Wireless als enabled) and suddenly WLAN unter Natty worked - no soft blocks any more. VERY strange.