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iWuzHere

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Registered: 2010-05-07

Posts: 7

Wireless wont turn back on

My laptop ( cq60-430ca ) has a wireless kill switch that is either blue or red next to the power button,
i was getting wireless before, and the light kept switching between the colours whenever i was using the internet,
i was curious as to whether or not the kill switch still worked ( did not in ubuntu )
i pressed it and it turned the wireless off, but the problem is that it wont turn back on now,
i rebooted and went into the bios, and saw that in my boot options that "Network" had a "!" infront of it, meaning that it could not boot up from the network, so i saw where it was disabled in the bios and turned it back on,

i booted back into Arch and saw that i still could not find any wireless networks, even though i am still in my home,
i am using wicd ( currently connected through lan )
this is the output of ifconfig -a:

[root@ArchTop Desktop]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1F:16:D7:20:C8  
          inet addr:192.168.0.102  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::21f:16ff:fed7:20c8/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1437 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:968 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1009454 (985.7 Kb)  TX bytes:149001 (145.5 Kb)
          Interrupt:27 Base address:0x6000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:300 (300.0 b)  TX bytes:300 (300.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:24:2C:57:69:1B  
          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

this is the output of iwconfig:

[root@ArchTop Desktop]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bg  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off

this is the output of iwlist wlan0 scan:

[root@ArchTop Desktop]# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

i did tried this:

[root@ArchTop Desktop]# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132

i found this:http://sachachua.com/wp/2010/02/fixing- … ee-1008ha/

but i get command not found for rfkill

any ideas what i can do to get wireless working again?
( p.s. i dont use root, but i was tired of constantly using sudo and entering my password over and over, that i just su root for these commands )

Sin.citadel

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Registered: 2008-01-22

Posts: 267

Re: Wireless wont turn back on

if rfkill is not installed, you can get it using pacman --sync rfkill

iWuzHere

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Registered: 2010-05-07

Posts: 7

Re: Wireless wont turn back on

well i got rfkill and followed the steps as root, but wicd still does not show any wireless networks even though i am in one

iWuzHere

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Registered: 2010-05-07

Posts: 7

Re: Wireless wont turn back on

And when I boot up from an ubuntu live disc, my wireless works...why won't it work on arch?