Wireless not working on laptop[SOLVED]

[kbkb]

Hi,

My laptop uses the following wireless card:
Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
I've gotten that information from using:

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lspci -v

in terminal

Unfortunately the network manager states that "Wireless is disabled".
As a result I can't connect via wireless.

Can someone help me?

[kbkb]

My problem has been solved, my Compaq Presario CQ60 now has wireless capability.

Using the Software Repository, I installed rfkill.
I then entered the following in terminal:

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sudo rfkill unblock 0
sudo rfkill unblock 1
ifconfig wlan0 up

Credit goes to: http://axcoto.com/blog/article/tag/sioc ... to-rf-kill

This fix is not permanent. To make it permanent, I created /bin/wlan and placed the following in it:

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#! /bin/bash
sudo rfkill unblock 0
sudo rfkill unblock 1
ifconfig wlan0 up

I made it executable and then added an entry in rc.local

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/bin/wlan