Wireless problems on HP

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Published on 2012-06-15T11:18:46Z Indexed on 2012/06/16 9:22 UTC
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I'm not able to enable Wireless using the hardware switch on my HP ProBook4430s.

Because of this the Enable Wireless option is greyd out and I cannot enable it.

The greyd out option can be seen in the screenshot below.

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The results of iwconfig for my system are as follows,

lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Also I tried to do the following,

    sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

but I got an error as below,

    SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

Also the result of sudo rfkill list all for my system is as follows,

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

How do I fix this problem?

Thanku!

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