On 05/02/2010 10:36 AM, ibm new wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have an HP6720s notebook and just installed 11.2. Unfortunately my
> wifi will not start. I have manually installed the firmware and i still
> can not bring the wifi up and running.
>
> when i check with demsg i get the following:
–snip–
> I can not enable the wifi at all by pressing the soft button, so I
> don’t think that’s the issue here.
I think it is the issue. The soft button on HP laptops is handled by a
module called hp-wmi. Is that one loaded on your system? Use the command
‘lsmod | grep wmi’ to test for it. If that command does not produce any
output, the manually load it with ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v hp-wmi’. Does
the button work now? If hp-wmi was already loaded, or the RFKILL button
still does not work after loading the module, please repost here, and I
will tell you how to contact the maintainer of that module.