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[Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Joseph,

On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 20:51 -0400, Joseph Zitt wrote:
> I'm running Lucid on my EeePC 1001 (though in Windows now since I
> can't seem to get WiFi working consistently on the Ubuntu side of
> things).

First thing would be to run "rfkill list". Often on Eee*, the wifi cards
are blocked. A softblock should be something you can unlock using
rfkill, but a hardblock is usually something you have to physically do
to the machine to fix. It may mean flipping a switch somewhere or
enabling wifi in the BIOS. On one bug report I've seen, someone had to
press the wifi radio button *while they were in the BIOS* to get things
to work in Ubuntu.

I'm not sure why, but Eee* products seem to have larger amounts of
rfkill issues, but this is just my anecdotal experience.

(P.S. Feel free to seek me out on #ubuntu-kernel on freenode if you have
any questions. My nick is cnd.)

-- Chase