WLAN button not wanting to work

[Fraser]

Hi Guys,
New to linux today so be easy on me but so far okish.

I have an HP NX9420 that was on XP. It all worked fine except the DVD.
Ive loaded on LL 2.0 and now the DVD works like a charm. Awesome.
I have connected to the net via hard wiring as I cant see any wireless network. THis is because I cant turn on the WLAN button (it has a blue light that has nothing happening) (that was working on XP this morning).
From reading other posts this is an issue but haven't been able to solve.

I managed to install rfkill;

# rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes

I also tried rfkill unblock all
This gave the error: Cant open RFKILL control device: Permission denied.

So basically im out of ideas so can anyone suggest something a noob can understand?

Thanks

[valtam]

Try: sudo rfkill unblock all

[Fraser]

Yes it accepted that but after I rebooted still no change.
Still has 'Wi-FI is disabled by hardware switch' in the network panel.

[valtam]

Do you have a lan/wan swithcher in the bios?

[Fraser]

Hi,
Yes I do but it is enabled.

Well I dont know what I did just then but I unplugged the cable to move rooms and the wireless network was recognised. By the time I entered the details, the blue wlan light was on. So now it works. Brilliant . Maybe I should have unplugged earlier.

I have noticed the blue light flashes quite a bit which is odd. I see other have asked about this. It never ever did that on XP.

Anyway, thanks for your help to get me going.
Cheers, Fraser

[valtam]

No problem, that unplugging was to be my next suggestion (from here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1742492)

[ohjrson]

Great that you got it to work.
As far as the blue light blinking that is normal for Beryl. My Acer Aspire does the exact same thing. When I have the laptop running XP the WLAN light is solid and steady on. But when I switch over to Beryl (LL 2.0) the light flashes. It is a representation that the wireless is communicating. No flashing light, no wireless. That's all.

And when you unplugged the cable did you mean the RJ45 cable to connect internet? If that's true, your wireless would not come on because you already had a connection through cable. When you disconnected RJ45 cable from computer it had no choice but to use the wireless.

Glad to hear it works. Another satisfied Beryl user.