Recently it's repeated constantly !! Network is Disabled shown in the network icon, my OS ubuntu 10.10 .
While I'm surfing on the NET after a while (may be 2 hours or may be a day) it disconnect and then can't connect to WiFi anymore till rebooting the machine !!.
I've searched and tried a lot of solutions but no useful one seems to solve the probelm :(
here is one in this forum it's same problem explained there but can't solve as mentioned !,also every thread/question related to the problem found here I tried but no hope .
"Rfkill list all" command shows:
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
even the Wireless button is switched on !
another command:
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
*"lshw" command:
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 01
serial: 00:19:db:3d:d1:18
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI ip=192.168.1.102 latency=0 multicast=yes
resources: irq:43 ioport:d800(size=256) memory:fe2ff000-fe2fffff memory:fe2c0000-fe2dffff
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:6
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:19:db:9d:d7:c3
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt73usb driverversion=2.6.35-32-generic firmware=N/A multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED
description: Ethernet interface
physical id: 2
logical name: vboxnet0
serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
capabilities: ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
*of "lspci" command:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 01)
please help....any suggestion will be appreciated .
if
rfkill list
shows1
is hardblocked: did you try runningthat works for me (but in my case i have to run
rfkill unblock 0
andrfkill unblock 2
, the first is my wireless switch, the second is the wifi switch)I would file a bug on launchpad to report this intermittant failure.
In the interim, a few of potential things you can try.
Suggestion 1.
Boot using an earlier kernel - press SHIFT at boot time to display your Grub. Choose the previous versions option and select an older kernel
Suggestion 2.
Drop and start your lan connection via
Suggestion 3.
Force a restart of the network manager service
Suggestion 4.
Unload and reload the kernel model and restart network manager:
Try when booting your computer:
Check if you're still hard blocked.
[keys are for my laptop which isn't a dell you may need to check which are your own]
For those who tried everything like me, including
suggested by @cfstras, you might try something ridiculously simple.
In my case
rfkill list
output was:So I tried:
And this didn't help. After some googling I solved the problem just by pressing
Fn+PrtScr
which has the icon of wireless network. (I have Dell XPS 13 9343, but on your laptop this might be on some other button). HTH.