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[Paul <909938@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have what I believe is the same problem on a HP Pavillion dm1-4030sa
and a fresh install of ubuntu 11.10 and a Broadcom 4313GN wireless
adapter. I don't have a hardware switch as such - but the f11key can act
as a wireless communication toggler. There is a light on it that is
supposed to turn from orange to white when wireless communication is
activated. (That's how this worked when I originally booted this up
under Windows.) However under ubuntu it is always orange, even though it
does seem to toggle all wireless communication as expected.

The problem for me is that when I start the laptop bluetooth shows as
being turned on and I want to turn it off. No point it eating the
battery. However, when I do so, via the bluetooth status indicator
dropdown menu my wireless connection is also disabled. Furthermore, if I
go to the networking status indicator dropdown menu the "Enable
wireless" menu item is unchecked (as you might expect), but it is
impossible to re-enable it by selecting it. All wireless communication
has becomes blocked - or airplane mode as the original poster says. Even
selecting to turn on bluetooth again via the dropdown doesn't work. The
only solution I have found to reenable wireless networking is to select
Preferences from the bluetooth  dropdown and slide the bluetooth toggle
from off to on - which also switches on bluetooth. Confusingly though,
even when bluetooth is displayed as On in the drop down menu of the
status indicator it displays as being disabled in the preferences
dialog! As original poster says, Ubuntu has got really confused about
bluetooth and wireless.

Any help that you anyone could provide sorting this out would be
gratefully received.

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Title:
  Ubuntu has confused my bluetooth feature with my wireless card

Status in “network-manager-applet” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am running ubuntu 11.10. I have been using ubuntu since 9.04. I have
  11.10 installed on a Dell Inspiron switch. The OS seams to have
  confused bluetooth and wireless. When I turn off bluetooth all
  wireless activity immediately ceases. When I attempt to access
  wireless networks through the wireless card every option is grey and I
  am unable to access it. It acknowledges the pressence of the card
  itself, identifys it, gives me its MAC address and even the type of
  card it is but I cannot turn the wireless function on, search for
  wireless networks, or connect to one via anything but the bluetooth
  function. It also seems to be in perminent airplaine mode. I have
  turned airplaine mode off several times and yet it still will not
  allow me access to my wireless functions. When I exit the network
  settings folder airplaine mode is immediately re-enstated and is "on"
  again when I open it back up. I have made several attempts to rectify
  this and had absolutely no luck.

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