"Wireless disabled by hardware switch" after suspend and other hardware buttons ineffective - how can I solve this?
- by fahadayaz
I have recently purchased a Novatech nFinity N1410 laptop and am having problems with the wireless, which
sudo lshw -C network
tells me is Centrino Wireless-N 2230 and using the iwlwifi driver.
The problem is that after the device has been suspended, I am not able to get the wireless working again without a restart. The network indicator states that the wireless disabled by hardware switch.
Though Fn+F2 is meant to be the wireless switch,
xev
tells me that the system doesn't see it as anything at all when I press this hardware combination. Also, though the brightness up/down buttons work fine, the volume up/down buttons do not work either.
What can I do to fix this? I am running Ubuntu 12.10 with all available updates installed.