I'm not able to enable Wireless using the hardware switch -f12- on my HP Pavilion dv6-7080-se.

the Enable Wireless option is greyd out so I cannot enable it.

while starting ubuntu when i press f12 -which starts wifi drive- for a login time the wifi works.

The results of iwconfig for my system are as follows

eth0      no wireless extensions.



eth1      IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any  

          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   

          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off

          Power Management:on



lo        no wireless extensions.

the result of rfkill list all for my system is as follows
1

: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: yes

2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: yes

3: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: yes

5: phy0: Wireless LAN

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: no

6: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: no

here is my sudo lshw -C network result.

 *-network               

       description: Wireless interface

       product: BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter

       vendor: Broadcom Corporation

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:0a:00.0

       logical name: eth1

       version: 01

       serial: 08:ed:b9:26:06:81

       width: 64 bits

       clock: 33MHz

       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=6.20.155.1 (r326264) latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abg

       resources: irq:19 memory:d4500000-d4503fff

  *-network

       description: Ethernet interface

       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller

       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.

       physical id: 0

       bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0

       logical name: eth0

       version: 07

       serial: 08:2e:5f:73:2a:e2

       size: 100Mbit/s

       capacity: 1Gbit/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 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation

       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8168e-3_0.0.4 03/27/12 ip=192.168.1.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s

       resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:d4404000-d4404fff memory:d4400000-d4403fff

lspci -vnn | grep Network showed:

0a:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:4727] (rev 01)