Not able to turn airplane mode off after it was turned on (wireless unavailable)
I have installed opensuse 11.4 gnome 3 on Compaq nc6220
Anyone knows how to get airplane mode off???
In network settings I am able to move the airplane mode to off but there is no save or anything else to do that close the window.
When I open the network settings again it is on… and impossible to set wireless on.
/Helge
Hi
Gnome 3 what… 3.0, 3.0.2, 3.2.0??? Open system settings and then
system info.
Correct, no saving, changes are made on the fly so to speak with the
switches 
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.4 (x86_64) Kernel 2.6.37.6-0.7-desktop
up 2:44, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.07, 0.05
GPU GeForce 8600 GTS Silent - Driver Version: 285.05.09
3.0.2
Just some additional info; I have 3 exactly same PC’s with the same setup. (11.4 Gnome 3.0.2)
The problem is on 2 of them now (I will not try to turn on airplane mode on the third 
So I don’t think it is HW problem.
/HH
On 10/15/2011 08:56 AM, hxh69576 wrote:
>
> So I don’t think it is HW problem.
since this is a wireless problem (inability to reinstitute wireless
after setting airplane mode), i’d suggest you might find some help in
the three stickies at the top of that forum <http://tinyurl.com/4lq2s9z>
but, i’m not sure on that and i’m not a wireless guru–but somewhere in
those post i read about a way to learn if the wireless is ‘hardware
blocked’ or ‘sofware blocked’, and i think rfkill may be a useful key
to unlock the latter…(and, finding the right physical button to press
might be useful in the former)
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DD
Caveat
openSUSE®, the “German Automobiles” of operating systems
OK. the HW switch is very easy to see above the function keys with a blue led turned on/off. It has been working well but since some weeks/months ago (I guess after some patches) it started to fail.
/HH