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[Miguel Veliz <miguelv06@xxxxxxxxx>]

Boot into windows and enable it

Sent from my iPhone

On Jan 1, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Andrey Sheyko <andrey.sheyko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After a reboot wireless doesn't work in Ubuntu 12.10. NetworkManager
> applet shows "Device is not ready". '$rfkill ublock all' doesn't help.
> To turn on wireless again I need to remove battery and make several
> reboots. I didn't manage to compile the latest version of the
> NetworkManager (9.6.4) or find binary package. Wireless was working
> perfectly in Ubuntu 11.10, but 12.04 and 12.10 have the same problem.
>
> I've also tried to update kernel to the version 3.7.0 (have no idea if
> it could help). But the Janitor couldn't install sony modules there
> (stamina switch doesn't work, brightness buttons don't work). And
> wireless device is anyway inaccessible after reboots.
>
> Could somebody give any advice?
>
> My device is VGNZ790DHB.
>
> all the best,
> Andrey Sheyko
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Calin Crisan <ccrisan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is a NetworkManager issue, fixed with the following commit
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/commit/?id=ef4f6a2e55784fec4498d364b6181c3ca36ab7b0.
>> If you're not able to update to this latest version, a workaround is to run
>> rfkill unblock all whenever you disable the wifi from the applet.
>>
>> Calin.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Kondratenko Boris <kondor71@xxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>> I have the same problem. As I understand it can be switch on only by
>>> VAIO Smart Network in Windows.
>>> --
>>> Kondratenko Boris <kondor71@xxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>> В Вс., 04/11/2012 в 18:40 -0500, Miguel Veliz пишет:
>>>> So now my wireless doesn't work in linux, i disable it and cant enable
>>>> :( keeps saying that hardware switch is off... There is switch on it
>>>> as far as I can see
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
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