Wireless hard block on ASUS N61Jv (ar9285)
Solution 1:
No. Fn + F2 should change hardware state. Probably you didn't install the closed source driver required for your card.
Press Alt + F2, type gksu jockey-gtk. This will search for additional drivers required for your system from internet. Activate them.
If no drivers listed there. Please edit your question with output of lspci and sudo lshw -class NETWORK
Update from: Atheros AR9485 wireless card doesn't work in an ASUS K53E
According to the answer, you need to install linux-backports-modules-cw and update network manger after wards. Give it a try.
linux-backports-modules-cw is specific to kernel.
- First execute
uname -r. Get your kernel version. - Open software centre and search for
linux-backports-modules-cw. Now carefully choose the correct version according to kernel version. Say your kernel name is3.2.0-27-generic. So you should downloadlinux-backports-modules-cw-3.3-3.2.0-27-generic 3.2.0-27.xx - Update network-manager.
- Now reboot
The compitable cards are listed here http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/WLAN/Linux-backports-modules#Enthaltene-Treiber