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1. Nathaniel Ubuntu users , EeePC

   I disabled wireless on my !eeepc under !ubuntu 10.04 now its greyed out & won't change with the fn+f2 combo any ideas?

   Saturday, 11-Dec-10 02:48:43 UTC from iDent iPhone App
   • Brian Kemp

     @nathaniel73 re-enable it using network manager. I would imagine the bios wouldn't know what to do if the OS turned it off...

     Saturday, 11-Dec-10 03:12:33 UTC
   • Brian Kemp

     @nathaniel73 Try to do it through the BIOS not fn-f2. 9.10 used to have a bug - shutdown would kill wireless unless re-enabled before boot!

     Saturday, 11-Dec-10 03:14:57 UTC
   • Anand Prabhu

     @nathaniel73: You may try out this command 'sudo rfkill unblock wifi'

     Saturday, 11-Dec-10 03:22:46 UTC
   • Doug Penner

     @nathaniel73 eeepc has a weird card. try rebooting, hiting the wireless combo then rebooting again. Very frustrating, but only fix i know of

     Saturday, 11-Dec-10 03:40:23 UTC
   • Nathaniel Brian Kemp

     @benanov thankyou for that I hadn't thought of the bios setting it was disabled as you predicted, All better now though, thanks again

     Sunday, 12-Dec-10 12:50:09 UTC
   • Nathaniel Doug Penner

     @darwinsurvivor Thanks for the information I actually found the wlan was disabled in the bios & once fixed is back working again. Cheers

     Sunday, 12-Dec-10 13:27:15 UTC
   • Doug Penner

     @nathaniel73 i get that behaviour every time i let the battery die on my laptop or one of our netbooks.

     Sunday, 12-Dec-10 19:34:18 UTC