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dcov

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Registered: 2020-03-01

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wifi/bluetooth is hard blocked

Hey all, so over the past few days I've been trying to this issue, and I'm now out of ideas as to what to do. As the title states my wifi, and bluetooth appear to be hard blocked, but the thing is that my laptop does not have a wifi button/switch, and my BIOS shows wifi and bluetooth as enabled. I've tried blacklisting some kernel modules, namely 'wmi' and 'ideapad_laptop', and I've tried 'rfkill unblock all'.

Here's the current rfkill output.

>  rfkill list
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes

A little backstory - This past weekend I tried my hand at a hackintosh build, and while I got it to run and could use it, a lot of things didn't work right so I went back to Arch. The reason I mention this is that in order to get it to work I had to add a DSDT patch to my Clover boot config, and when I first re-installed Arch there were EFI vars that were loaded in named 'apple-recovery..', and 'fake-smc...' which are all related to my Hackintosh endeavor. So it's possible that I messed up my ACPI configuration doing so, but I just want to be sure I've attempted everything else before I try to patch it myself. Thanks.

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

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Re: wifi/bluetooth is hard blocked

I've tried blacklisting some kernel modules, namely 'wmi' and 'ideapad_laptop

How about the ideapad_wlan and/or ideapad_bluetooth modules? They are the names appearing in your posted output.

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dcov

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Registered: 2020-03-01

Posts: 2

Re: wifi/bluetooth is hard blocked

I don't think they're independent modules, I think they're part of the 'ideapad_laptop' module. At least when I ran 'modinfo' on them it returned that they weren't modules.