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So I've got some wlan problems all of a sudden. And I'm writing this from a phone so please be gentle if I misspell things.
Up until now my Intel 7265 [8086:095b] using the iwlwifi driver has worked OOTB, but today it started acting up. I left the laptop for a while and came back to the network down. No biggie, just run sudo netctl restart wlp4s0-<profile> and things should work, right? Well, they didn't, and ip link told me that wlp4s0 was indeed DOWN. Sure, sudo ip link set wlp4s0 up will solve that. No. That tells me "RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill" which leads me to think it's a hard- and/or softblocking issue and try to press the wlan button a few times to no avail. Checking what's up with rfkill seems impossible since the command is not found (but lsmod tells me the rfkill module is loaded).
Could anyone poke me in the right direction, keeping in mind that posting full error messages and/or logs will be a bothersome task for me.
EDIT: I tried both my default kernel (the broadwell one from ck-repo) and vanilla Arch kernel with the same results.
Booting a LiveUSB (TAILS, in this case) gives me working wlan.
EDIT2: So yeah, downloading rfkill from a mirror while on a LiveUSB, saving it down and installing it with pacman -U solved this. Silly blocks.
Last edited by tfla (2015-07-18 05:51:34)
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