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Invie

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From: Carnage, Destruction USA

Registered: 2012-09-08

Posts: 70

[SOLVED] RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill.

Tried numerous different rfkill commands. Here is the order of operations:

[~]# rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
                      Softblocked: yes
                      Hardblocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
                       Softblocked: yes
                       Hardblocked: yes
[~]# rfkill unblock all

[~]# rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
                      Softblocked: yes
                      Hardblocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
                       Softblocked: yes
                       Hardblocked: yes

[~]# rfkill unblock wifi

[~]# rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
                      Softblocked: yes
                      Hardblocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
                       Softblocked: yes
                       Hardblocked: yes

Mind you, the wifi button on my Acer Aspire is giving me no response when I press the button, before or after trying this command. I have only had one strange instance where it said:

[~]# rfkill list all
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
                      Softblocked: no
                      Hardblocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
                       Softblocked: no
                       Hardblocked: no

But it never happened again.

Last edited by Invie (2013-02-11 02:24:09)

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Invie

Member

From: Carnage, Destruction USA

Registered: 2012-09-08

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill.

Noticed something in GUI:

Command rfkill unblock all makes airplane mode in gnome-control-center > network flick on and then off again.

After disabling acer-wmi (modprobe -r acer-wmi) it shows only:

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
             Soft Blocked: yes
             Hard Blocked: no

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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  ~Hans Christian Andersen

Invie

Member

From: Carnage, Destruction USA

Registered: 2012-09-08

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill.

Solved this issue myself after many hours of google searching.

[~]# sudo modprobe -r acer-wmi
[~]# sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/ath9.conf

#Thereafter I just went ahead and added:

options ath9k nohwcrypt=1

# To the file and then rebooted. That solved the problem.

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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.  ~Hans Christian Andersen