I just bought a Compal JFT00 Laptop with Intel 4965 Wireless card. I installed Kubuntu on it, but it can't find, or somehow utilize, the wireless card. KNetworkmanager just allows me to turn wireless on or off, but it doesn't find any wireless networks, (or the wireless device in the configuration window for that matter).
After doing a whole lot of googling, (I'm a Linux noob) I tried the lshw -C Network command, and the wireless card shows up, with configuration: driver=iwl4965, latency=0, module=iwl4965, as it should be. It has, however, no logical name, as opposed to the ethernet interface. I also did the dmesg command, and one of the messages says iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill Switch
Following up on another advice, I did cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl4965/0000\:01\:00.0/rf_kill which returned the value 0.
On the computer, there is a LED button that has a Wireless/Bluetooth symbol on it. When I press it, the Bluetooth symbol shows up in the desktop tray, and another LED lights up with the Wireless/bluetooth symbol, and it's blue. I have tried all the stuff both with turning this button on and off. There is no way to turn off any Wireless Kill Switch in BIOS.
Also, on the F2 key, there is a wireless symbol (only wireless, no bluetooth), which may indicate that I could press Fn+F2 to activate the wireless. All the other Fn+something button combinations work (e.g. increasing volume, sleep mode and so on), but when I do Fn+F2, nothing happens. I have also tried all of the above things after doing this, with no change. When I did showkey, it did not register Fn at all, so I'm a bit surprised this button works at all in Linux. (But maybe I don't know what showkey really indicates)
This is all the info I have about this. What can I do? Thanks in advance.
After doing a whole lot of googling, (I'm a Linux noob) I tried the lshw -C Network command, and the wireless card shows up, with configuration: driver=iwl4965, latency=0, module=iwl4965, as it should be. It has, however, no logical name, as opposed to the ethernet interface. I also did the dmesg command, and one of the messages says iwl4965: Radio disabled by HW RF Kill Switch
Following up on another advice, I did cat /sys/bus/pci/drivers/iwl4965/0000\:01\:00.0/rf_kill which returned the value 0.
On the computer, there is a LED button that has a Wireless/Bluetooth symbol on it. When I press it, the Bluetooth symbol shows up in the desktop tray, and another LED lights up with the Wireless/bluetooth symbol, and it's blue. I have tried all the stuff both with turning this button on and off. There is no way to turn off any Wireless Kill Switch in BIOS.
Also, on the F2 key, there is a wireless symbol (only wireless, no bluetooth), which may indicate that I could press Fn+F2 to activate the wireless. All the other Fn+something button combinations work (e.g. increasing volume, sleep mode and so on), but when I do Fn+F2, nothing happens. I have also tried all of the above things after doing this, with no change. When I did showkey, it did not register Fn at all, so I'm a bit surprised this button works at all in Linux. (But maybe I don't know what showkey really indicates)
This is all the info I have about this. What can I do? Thanks in advance.
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