Sony Vaio PCG-71315L "Wireless is disabled by hardware switch" Help!

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Published on 2012-08-27T19:06:30Z Indexed on 2012/08/27 21:56 UTC
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I'm a new user to Ubuntu and Linux as a whole, I've had it for a few months and just as I'm starting to get a feel for things my wireless decided to quit on me. This puzzled me so i checked all the switches on the Vaio; my wireless switch was on (my bluetooth was also working), and in my windows partition the problem is non-existent. Help please? Anyways after executing the "rfkill list" command this was the outcome:

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

As stated in the title my laptop is a Sony Vaio PCG-71315L

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