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Hey all..
I've been doing an installation from scratch today on a laptop (Asus X75V). Everything was going accordingly. I wanted to try i3 and I followed each steps in the manual to have it working without any display manager (writing a .xinitrc and starting at boot with a startx command in .bash_profile).
It actually works flawlessly, but... since the first boot of X and i3 on tty1, wifi is gone.
I say "wifi is gone" because there's no more internet, and scanning for networks with wifi-menu fails (No networks found). The wifi interface looks down, and here's the message I get when I try to set it up:
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
I was using netctl (with netctl-auto enabled on the wifi interface).
It does'nt change anything wether I try from tty2 or tty1 on xterm. In doesn't change anything either if I reboot on normal tty1 (without starting X).
I don't know how this can be related to X or i3 in any way but I'm sure it is, as I haven't changed anything else in the meantime. The first time it occured I thought something were wrong with power saving packages I installed, I just reinstalled everything from scratch. But it occured again without any power saving setting :-( .
Any help would be highly appreciated since I'm learning lots of things about linux at a time and this makes it a bit too much for my humble brain.
(ps: not sure if I should post this here or in network ?)
EDIT: nvm, found the issue 5 minuts later, sorry! the i3status.conf had the wrong interface name in it :-(.
EDIT2: actually, the above fix wasn't enough and wifi crashed again. But this fix solved it : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … ation#ASUS . Arch manual you are awesome.
Last edited by mentatf (2015-02-26 21:03:56)
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