Toshiba A665 - Lost Wifi [SOLVED]

[paradive]

Toshiba A665

after install, WiFi was fine... 2 days later, nothing.
it won't even let me turn "wireless" off and on via the task tray.

SO confused!

the wifi hotkey is F8 - pushed it so many times, i don't even know where i left it - though it's never made a difference.

any ideas?
please?

iwconfig =

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IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID: offlany
Mode: Managed Access Point: Not associated Tx-Power=off
Retry Long limit: 7 RTS thr=23473 Fragment thr: off
Power Management: off

at this point, i'm wondering if the card died.

[gtsfer]

You should really change (edit) the subject of that first post. It will send most people running away pretty fast. Try "Toshiba A665 - Lost Wifi".
Can you open a terminal window and run these two commands? Copy/paste and post the output of each one back here.

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inxi -n
rfkill list

I hope this is not similar to some other wifi issues I have seen with laptops. That hotkey to turn wifi on and off can cause big problems on some machines (with Linux at least). But the fact that it was working fine for two days makes me think maybe it's not in that category.

[AlanWalker]

Toshiba A665

after install, WiFi was fine... 2 days later, nothing.
it won't even let me turn "wireless" off and on via the task tray.

SO confused!

the wifi hotkey is F8 - pushed it so many times, i don't even know where i left it - though it's never made a difference.

The manual for your system makes ref. to Fn+F8. for "Disabling or enabling wireless devices" (pp 221).

You didn't, by chance, forget the Fn key did you?

[paradive]

nope.

didn't forget the fn key.

anyway, working now.

the solution was removing the battery (and unplugging it) for 5 minutes,
letting it reset,
then bam!

[gtsfer]

Good deal, you were "lucky". I know that some laptops get really confused by that hotkey wifi shutoff w Linux.

Please edit your first post and add SOLVED to the subject field, ok? It may help others.