$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
$sudo rekill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
SO problem solved, that remind us never ignore the keyboard when system tell you to find a physical swtich
cheers,
gtolden
Now I know where my "WLAN Hard Block"-button is.
Thanks a lot!
Considering it is a ThinkPad, I assume you probably have a physical switch that controls the wifi, yes? Typically that is what is meant by "hard blocked".
Yes, it is a ThinkPad T400, but I can't see there any possibility to switch Wlan on or off by any function key. In the web, I found that "Fn+F5" should do that, but I pressed it several times and nothing happend, it is still "hard blocked". The WLAN-LED turned on in the past when it connected to a WLAN-network, but now it's aways off. In BIOS, WLAN-Features are activated, and I also didn't change anything of these here.
Checking harware switches will be relevant, and running `rfkill unblock all` would be a usefull (and I would think obvious) first step.
Running `rfkill unblock all` doesn't change anything.
Thanks for any further help on this topic.
- beachcoder
]]>Checking harware switches will be relevant, and running `rfkill unblock all` would be a usefull (and I would think obvious) first step.
]]>In other words, a "soft block" is the machine saying that this device has been put down by software means, and it can bring it back up for you. While a "hard block" is the machine saying that it knows there is a device there, but there is something beyond software control that is keeping it down.
]]>In the past, my WLAN worked fine on my T400.
Now, I did an update after a long time and get the following error messages:
$ ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
$ netcfg my-wlan up
:: my-wlan up [ BUSY ] Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
rfkill: WLAN hard blocked
Could not set interface wlan0 flags (UP): Operation not possible due to RF-kill
[FAILED]
$ rfkill list all
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
1: tpacpi_wwan_sw: Wireless WAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
Does somebody have an idea how to fix this?
Please don't tell me to compile my own kernel, it's the current stock kernel:
Linux kestrel 3.9.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed Jul 3 22:45:16 CEST 2013 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks in advance!!
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