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mico

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2004-02-08

Posts: 250

WLAN gets soft blocked

Hi All,

I have configured wireless network to start automatically with netctl-auto service. It works fine for some time, then after a few hours or days and a few reboots it gets soft blocked. This always happens after the laptop has booted, for example, it works for some short time after booting, then all of a sudden it stops and I notice it got soft blocked and I have to do

rfkill unblock all
systemctl restart netctl-auto@wlp7s0.service

Then it works for some time and after a few reboots it gets blocked again.

I have tried:

/etc/modprobe.d/wireless.conf:

options ath9k nohwcrypt=1

/etc/modules-load.d/network.conf:

rfkill

None of those made any difference.

This is my wireless network controller & driver:

# lspci -k
...
07:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
	Subsystem: Lenovo Device 4026
	Kernel driver in use: ath9k
	Kernel modules: ath9k

Last edited by mico (2015-05-01 18:25:03)