Wireless not enabled at start up on Lenovo X121e with Xubuntu

My wireless works fine when it IS enabled. But it needs to be enabled at every startup, rather than just being automatically enabled from the beginning of the session. I'm running a Lenovo X121e, and have installed Xubuntu 11.10 onto it.

Any ideas on how to make it so it starts as enabled automatically?

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This is probably you did a hardware switch. This can be undone by pressing your wifi activator key. It differs on different computers. But to check, open your terminal crlt+alt+t. Then press rfkill list (Description of rfkill: rfkill - tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices). It will show weather or not your wifi and LAN is either hard blocked or soft blocked. Hard blocked is when the wifi (for example) is blocked by a physical button/switch. Soft block is when it was blocked virtualy though the OS. Before you try and reboot and press the wireless button to activate it, try using the following command: rfkill unblock wifi then check if it is blocked. Use rfkill list to check if its block on unblocked afterwards. If it is hard blocked, just reboot and press the wireless botton.

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For me it is a bug. I filled a report here

Further update:

The problem is the bios as this bug updating the bios, then reset to default the bios solve this issue

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