[SOLVED] No Wifi on Dell Inspiron 6000

[kcirick]

I haven't looked too much into details about the specifics, but if you're having problems with wicd, then you could try network manager. You can install it using gslapt.

EDIT : first try the previous suggestion by Akuna. I think based on your posts, that should solve it.

[Dennola4]

In Wicd's preferences, you should actually change the wireless connection from wlan0 to eth0 (like it shows in iwconfig) and leave eth1 (the wired connection) unchanged.

Tried this, rebooted, no change.

I haven't looked too much into details about the specifics, but if you're having problems with wicd, then you could try network manager. You can install it using gslapt.

EDIT : first try the previous suggestion by Akuna. I think based on your posts, that should solve it.

Tried this.... the application doesn't exist as such in the repo, according to gslapt.

[Dennola4]

SOLVED!

Holy hell is this a weird one. I use rfkill to toggle wifi. On a hunch I ran /usr/sbin/rfkill list and got:

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dennis[~]$ /usr/sbin/rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes

I then found this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1781350&page=2
....which seemed all over the place until I read this:

I solved my problem of wireless being hard blocked on a toshiba netbook with realtek wifi chip. All I did was reboot and use fuction key + F8 which is my wifi hotkey switch. During Bios Boot Screen. make it is pressed before OS takes over.

I rebooted and pressed Function + F2 before Salix booted, and suddenly it is working.

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dennis[~]$ /usr/sbin/rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Weird, but VERY happy it works. Hope this helps someone else.

[Akuna]

Great!