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Plauge24

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Registered: 2013-04-01

Posts: 1

[SOLVED]?Wireless LAN hard blocked

I'm just going to start off by saying that this is the first time I've posted to these forums, (Been using arch forever though) but i didn't think this belonged in the newbie board so here i am. (Maybe it should be in Networking??)

I've recently acquired an hp laptop (Model 2000) and the wired ethernet seems to be broken so i've been trying to connect to wifi for about three and a half hours, the problem is that it keeps getting hard blocked whenever i try to scan for networks (In wifi-menu and also wicd) and it stays hard blocked until i run "rmmod ath5k", "rfkill unblock all" then "modprobe ath5k nohwcrypt", but as soon as i scan for networks it gets hard blocked again. I also have hp_wmi blacklisted.

It does have a hardware switch and i can hit it all i want but it doesn't change the output of "rfkill list all" which is:

    0: Phy 0: Wireless Lan
        Soft Blocked: no
        Hard Blocked: yes

Unless i do:

   # rmmod ath5k
   # rfkill unblock all
   # modprobe ath5k nohwcrypt

Then it shows "Hard Blocked: no" but it doesn't seem to make a difference because as soon as i try wifi-menu or scan for networks in wicd it go's back to "Hard Blocked: yes".

I have been googling for hours, tried loads of fixes and i don't have any idea where to go from here.

Here is the output of dmesg that has anything with "net" in it:

    [    0.010106] Initializing cgroup subsys net_cls
    [    2.174198] audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
    [    2.374808] drop_monitor: Initializing network drop monitor service
    [   13.542942] microcode: Microcode Update Driver: v2.00 <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>, Peter Oruba
    [   14.998474] systemd-udevd[140]: renamed network interface wlan1 to wlp6s0

And /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

    blacklist hp_wmi

I don't have any idea what other conf files to post so any suggestions would be appreciated.

EDIT: It seems to be hard blocking it when i try to put the interface up i.e. "Hard Block: no" then "ip link set wlp6s0 up" then "Hard Block: yes"
EDIT2: Started using a USB wifi dongle and removed the wireless chip. Solved? It keeps disconnecting when the screen shuts off though.

Last edited by Plauge24 (2013-12-18 21:24:17)

tago

Member

Registered: 2013-08-02

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED]?Wireless LAN hard blocked

I solved with:
sudo modprobe -r -f hp_wmi
reboot the pc and everything works!...