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My wireless has suddenly became disabled by hardware switch, BIOS, rfkill, fn+f8 do nothing

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http://askubuntu.com – 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. I inserted a usb dongle, and that is also disabled by hardware switch, although rfkill reports that it is neither hard nor soft blocked. My onboard wireless is 02:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter (rev 01) according to lspci (HowTos)

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

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?

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