How do I get wireless to work on a Dell Mini 1018 with Realtek RTL 8188CE Network Adapter?
- by Laurence Nagel
My Dell Mini 1018 used to work fine with Ubuntu 12.04 with no problems connecting with the wireless card. Then I made the big mistake of attempting to disable WiFi by right-clicking on the wireless applet and un-checking "Enable Wireless." Since then, I cannot get wireless working again. The wireless applet reports that "wireless is disabled by hardware switch" but there is no hardware switch on this computer. Issuing a rfkill list yields the following:
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard block: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
I'm in way over my head, and my computer is now useless. Help!!!