Trouble with Atheros card (Fedora 14)

[c0mmandr]

Hello all.

This morning I installed Fedora 14 on my laptop. During the setup, I was able to configure the wireless connection and use it to install additional software from the FreshRPMs and Livna repos. When the install was completed, I was surprised to find the wireless not working.

When I click on the NetworkManager icon at the bottom right corner, I see "Wireless Networks" Under that it says "device not ready" and it is greyed out so it cannot be click on.

Running lspci -vnn returned
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5001 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:001c] (rev 01)
Kernel driver in use: ath5k
Kernel modules: ath5k

Running lsmod confirmed that ath5k is in fact loaded. I'm stuck. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

[Sagitter]

Hi c0mmand,

install rfkill and post output of:

$ rfkill list

[c0mmandr]

Thank you very much for replying quickly.

The output is as follows:

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no


So the next question would be "How do I remove the soft-block?"
Thanks again.

---------- Post added at 02:49 PM GMT ---------- Previous post was at 02:28 PM GMT ----------

okay. issued "rfkill unblock all".

now rfkill list returns:

Hard blocked: no
Soft blocked: no

Following a reboot, everything working perfectly.

Thank you very much for your help.

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[Sagitter]

Ok.
Very good.

[smr54]

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