Another wifi problem.

[anonrights]

So I got linuxmint 13 for my lenovo ideapad s10-3 2 days ago, and the wireless worked out of the box. Now airplane mode is stuck on and after turning it off(which I don't know if does anything) i can't change the connection of the wireless. I got the most recent broadcom add. driver, ad my rfkill is;0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: brcmwl-1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
i get the feeling it's the one yes hardblocked, but what do I do???

[nomko]

What model/type is your Broadcome device? Can you give us the output of this terminal command: lspci.
Also check this forum for solutions for Broadcom devices. You're not the first user who encountered problems and propably you're not the last person too...

[anonrights]

Here's the lscpi
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
09:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)

[nomko]

There's a solution provided in this post: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=112843&p=654060&hilit=BCM4313#p654060.
Another solution: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=117384&p=650451&hilit=BCM4313#p651143.
It seems that this solution worked: viewtopic.php?f=53&t=115921&p=643182&hilit=BCM4313#p643205.

Next time if you have some issues, please take a look on this forum first to find a solution for your problem. There are many people before you posting the same problem with their software/hardware. And there's always a solution provided in those posts