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    Dell Latitude 6500 wireless problem

    Hi all,

    I am on a DELL Latitude 6500 laptop. It has a physical button to enable wifi. On Kubuntu 10.10 it was working perfectly. Now that I have made a fresh install to 11.04, whenever I try and turn the wifi on, I get a status message that my wifi is enabled. But the led indicator does not glow. and I could not find my router nor any other routers in my building.

    naveen@Galaxy:~$ lspci | grep Network
    00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03)
    0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100


    According to this website (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...%20Link%205100) the wifi is compatible with ubuntu and does not need any external drivers I guess.



    naveen@Galaxy:~$ ifconfig
    eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:ef:8f:7e
    inet addr:192.168.11.3 Bcast:192.168.11.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
    inet6 addr: fe80::221:70ff:feef:8f7e/64 Scope:Link
    UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
    RX packets:109088 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:92179 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
    RX bytes:123119892 (123.1 MB) TX bytes:52849407 (52.8 MB)
    Interrupt:22 Memory:f6fe0000-f7000000

    lo Link encap:Local Loopback
    inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
    inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
    UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
    RX packets:580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
    TX packets:580 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
    collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
    RX bytes:50934 (50.9 KB) TX bytes:50934 (50.9 KB)



    Any help would be very much appreciated.

    Thanks and Regards,
    Naveen
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