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How to unblock a hard block that was block via hardware switch using rfkill?

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http://askubuntu.com – My wireless is hard-blocked by hardware switch and I want to unblock it using rfkill. Is there any other way to unblock a hard and soft block on the Wireless LAN? rfkill list 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes This is stopping to use my wireless. How do I undo a hardware switch? (HowTos)

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hi all.. I am kind of new to ubantu.

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I have a toshiba l655d-s5145. There is no physical toggle for the wireless, although the f8 key is supposed to do the trick. It doesn't. The wireless has been working since October, and suddenly, nothing. RFKILL reports that the wireless is hard blocked, but unblock wifi, unblock 0, unblock all do nothing.

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I think I may have found the cause of my problems with connecting to wifi in Ubuntu 11.10.

I type this in Terminal:

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If I am correct I must unblock all of t

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I disabled bluetooth from bluetooth tray menu (unity), then bluetooth was disabled, and wireless disabled too. I can't enable bluetooth and wireless again. It said:

bluetooth is disabled by hardware switch wireless is disabled by hardware switch

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rfkill list all 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no

I tried running rfkill unblock all.

~$ lspci | grep Network 06:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiMAX/WiFi Link 5150

~$ rfkill list all 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 1: i2400m-usb:1-1.1:1.0: WiMAX Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes

~$ sudo rfkill unblock all

But WiFi is still disabled. Here is some info:

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