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debendraoli

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Registered: 2019-05-19

Posts: 6

[Solved] Wifi is diabled on xfce4.

Greetings everyone.

I am quite new to arch linux, I have two laptops with arch linux installed.

I use gnome 3 DE on one and xfce4 on another.

I got issue with wifi on xfce4.

I have nm-applet installed and it seems fine with wired connection and nm-applets yields 'Wifi is diabled'.

But I can connect to wifi using

# wifi-menu

without any problems.

# ip link

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 20:1a:06:29:2f:d7 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp2s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 06:20:9c:e6:94:35 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

# ip link set wlp2s0 up

RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

# rfkill list

0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
7: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no

I followed every threads related to my issues but unfortunately none of them worked for me.

Last edited by debendraoli (2019-05-19 18:01:59)

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: London

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 7,732

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Re: [Solved] Wifi is diabled on xfce4.

Try

# rfkill unblock all

If that doesn't help then please post the output of

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

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Are you infected with Wetiko?

debendraoli

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Registered: 2019-05-19

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Wifi is diabled on xfce4.

Try

# rfkill unblock all

If that doesn't help then please post the output of

systemctl list-unit-files --state=enabled

UNIT FILE                                  STATE  
autovt@.service                            enabled
dbus-org.freedesktop.nm-dispatcher.service enabled
display-manager.service                    enabled
getty@.service                             enabled
lightdm.service                            enabled
NetworkManager-dispatcher.service          enabled
NetworkManager-wait-online.service         enabled
NetworkManager.service                     enabled
nfs-server.service                         enabled
sshd.service                               enabled
teamviewerd.service                        enabled
remote-fs.target                           enabled

12 unit files listed.

debendraoli

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Registered: 2019-05-19

Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Wifi is diabled on xfce4.

Oh my god. I was so dumb.
I was banging on this problem for past two days and simple right clicked solved the issue.
I never wonder there was right click context in nm-applet.

I mistakenly right clicked over nm-applet, checked enable wifi checkbox and finally voila.

Quite new to xfce4 though.

Thanks.

Last edited by debendraoli (2019-05-20 10:39:38)