I was just playing around a little: I did a rmmod dell_wmi, then rfkill unblock all.
after that rfkill list showed phy0 and dell-wifi in the same hard blocked state. after that, the wifi key enabled both. wifi is working from here!!! now I did a modprobe dell_wifi which gave some output in dmesg: 10723.479682] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio [10723.479727] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc [10723.479768] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX [10723.479812] Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX [10723.559717] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready [10735.294126] wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:15:f2:0a:ab:c5 by local choice (reason=3) [10735.294201] wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:15:f2:0a:ab:c5 (try 1) [10735.298553] wlan0: direct probe responded [10735.298560] wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:15:f2:0a:ab:c5 (try 1) [10735.301935] wlan0: authenticated [10735.301972] wlan0: associate with AP 00:15:f2:0a:ab:c5 (try 1) [10735.305199] wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:15:f2:0a:ab:c5 (capab=0x411 status=0 aid=1) [10735.305205] wlan0: associated [10735.310601] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready [10741.104663] r8169: eth1: link down [10745.337658] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present [10755.937293] input: Dell WMI hotkeys as /devices/virtual/input/input18 and wifi is still working. -- WiFi Key doesn't work in Dell Studio 1557 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/522545 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs