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[Brett Howard <brett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Look for a switch on your laptop and try to make sure yo have the
wireless turned on.  Your switch may be broken...

~Brett

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:29 PM, Sasha Costanza-Chock <schock@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> So I decided to go for it and do a fresh install of the latest Natty
> build on my VPCZ. It's great! I installed fresh using natty daily build
> alternate install iso from a USB, installed on the whole disk. Out of
> the box the graphics are looking as nice as they ever did for me with
> the hacked vaioz kernel, and finally the audio is working.
>
> I still have not been able to get the wireless up though :( It believes
> there is a "hard blocked" sony-wifi and nothing I do works. rfkill,
> network manager restart, etc etc.
>
> Here's some more info on my problem:
>
>  lspci | grep Network00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation
> 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 05)
> 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200
> (rev 35)
>
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
>
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:"roadrunner.sux"
>          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-
> Associated
>          Tx-Power=off
>          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
>          Power Management:off
>
> rfkill list
> 0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN
>        Soft blocked: no
>        Hard blocked: yes
> 1: sony-bluetooth: Bluetooth
>        Soft blocked: no
>        Hard blocked: yes
> 2: sony-wwan: Wireless WAN
>        Soft blocked: no
>        Hard blocked: yes
> 3: phy0: Wireless LAN
>        Soft blocked: no
>        Hard blocked: yes
>
> help!
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