OK here is the laptop its a HP pavilion DV6 7115nr has 8 gigs ram 750 gig hdd quad core amd processor and beats audio for some reason I cannot get the wireless or the sound to work. I am by no means a linux newbie, so i have tried ndiswrapper as well as madwifi. the wireless chipset is an atheros the laptop it self has an on off key on the keyboard which is f12. the output of lspci is:

)

iwconfig is :

I am running ubuntu 10.04 with 3.0 kernel i have tried everything i know and am know looking for help from someone with a little more experience than me and help would be greatful

That notebook is simply to new for 10.04, even with a 3.0 kernel. Try Ubuntu 12.04 LTS or 12.10 (released today with kernel 3.5).

Ok upgraded to 12.10 sound now works right out of the box however the wireless is still not working it will not let me enable wireless and i am almost postive it is because the wireless is enabled through windows via the f12 key the light is orange right now I have tried to pres and hold i have tried to press fn plus f12 no luck i am at a loss

the rfkill list command is

it does not matter wether I use block or unblock it stays the same as above this includes using the sudo command as well

if i try to use the "sudo ifconfig wlan0 up" command I get

Output for sudo lshw -C network:


So I know the driver is there so it has to be the button to turn on and off

well i do not know how or why but for some reason on a reboot it all of a sudden started working the button works fine as well as the wireless it might have been just a fluk or bug in the install that just took a few reboots to work it self out but anyways it all works thanks for the tip about upgradeing to 12.10

It seems that your issue has been solved. If that's the case, please mark this thread as solved. This will make it easier for other members with the same problem to find this solution. You can do that with the thread tools above your initial post.