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thawkins

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Registered: 2011-08-09

Posts: 1

Wireless/RFKill issues

Yesterday I updated the kernel and I've been having some troubles getting my wireless connection to work. Wlan0 seems to register:

$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11abg  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on

However, neither netcfg or wicd can connect. When running netcfg profiles it gives an error related to RFKill. I ran rfkill list and found that it was hardblocked, so I manually reloaded ath5k and the block was gone, but when running netcfg the block returned. There has to be a way to fix this, any ideas?