wep cracking messed up my wifi card

So I thought I'd mess around with WEP cracking with my laptop and aircrack. It's pretty easy since all the tools needed are in the repos.

I found out the hard way that the wireless card in my HP dv2000 wasn't up to the task. It wouldn't go into monitor mode when I tried to dump the wireless data. So I gave up. The problem was that it put my wireless card into some state that I couldn't get it out of.

I finally fixed it by using rfkill:

sudo apt-get install rfkill

rfkill unblock all