Wireless stopped working. Mint 13 mate.

jcg624

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The wireless suddenly stopped worked on my wifes netbook. Enable wireless is grayed out and I am unable to turn it back on. There is no physical on/off switch for the wireless. The fn+f2 does not have an effect.
She has never done the updates. I currently have it connected hard wire to do the updates. Linux Mint 13 mate edition 32 bit.
is on the netbook.
inxi -fx
CPU: Single core Intel Atom CPU N455 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB bmips: 3325.15
Clock Speeds: 1: 1667.00 MHz 2: 1667.00 MHz
CPU Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx
fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts aperfmperf pni dtes64 monitor ds_cpl
est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm movbe lahf_lm dts

sudo lshw -C network
PCI (sysfs)
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:05:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: 5c:26:0a:3e:0f:9a
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.1.101 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f0f2c000-f0f2cfff memory:f0f18000-f0f1bfff
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RTL8188CE 802.11b/g/n WiFi Adapter
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 88:25:2c:d2:18:0c
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rtl8192ce driverversion=3.2.0-23-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:17 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:f0100000-f0103fff


rfkill list
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 5c:26:0a:3e:0f:9a
inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::5e26:aff:fe3e:f9a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:36723 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30861 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:35191702 (35.1 MB) TX bytes:7196592 (7.1 MB)
Interrupt:43

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:2128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:192020 (192.0 KB) TX bytes:192020 (192.0 KB)

iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:eek:ff/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:eek:ff
Power Management:eek:n

eth0 no wireless extensions.




The Soft Block And Hard Block both say yes How do I get those turned off?

I would appreciate any help.

Thank you
 
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