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alex.theoto

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From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

[SOLVED] Network manager locks rfkill

Hello.
I have a strange problem. I have an ArchLinux on flash disk for emergency OS.
I use Network-manager to manage my network.
So, the thing is for some reason network-manager blocks by rf, I unlock it with rfkill but again I cannot find my wireless device.

Here is some detail:
With disabled network-manager from systemd, there is no other network manager, I bootup my computer and 'ip link' is down.
I set 'ip link' up and I test with

iw dev wlp2s0 scan |head

to see if I can scan, and I can.
I can connect with 'wifi-menu' .
At the same time, on another terminal I watch 'rfkill list'

My rfkill is like:

0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

But when I start start network-manager with

systemctl start Network-manager

rfkill status changes and all devices are blocked.
I unlock my devices, but I cannot find my wireless with nmtui but at the same time I can scan with

iw dev wlp2s0 scan |head

.
The silly thing is that I use network-manager on another laptop and I don't see any problem, so I miss something.

Any help is welcome...

Last edited by alex.theoto (2017-05-20 19:29:41)

alex.theoto

Member

From: Athens Greece

Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 307

Re: [SOLVED] Network manager locks rfkill

Problem solved.
I used nmtui to control my connection but probably I disabled my wireless function.
So, I used nm-applet, right click on the icon and I click at 'Enable Wifi'.