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Bednar

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Registered: 2015-09-19

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WIFI Led off each time on boot - need to manually toggle to off/on

Hi, guys

Just installed arch 64 on a toshiba satelite laptop and have run into an issue. I connect to the internet via WIFI and once connected everything works perfect. The laptop has a slider that controlos whether wifi is on and off. setting it to on causes the wifi led to go on.

Now when WIFI IS on and I reboot, the LED goes down despite the slider being set to ON position and there is no internet. LED turns itself off on grub screen. Then it won't work until I manually set the slider to OFF and then to ON. This is mildly annyoing. Hope someone can help fix this.

Kernel 4.1.6

lspci:

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

I am a newb, so if you need more info, let me know.

Bednar

Last edited by Bednar (2015-09-20 09:32:19)

Trilby

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Re: WIFI Led off each time on boot - need to manually toggle to off/on

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … ill_caveat

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Bednar

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Re: WIFI Led off each time on boot - need to manually toggle to off/on

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … ill_caveat

Thanks, but my card doesn't appear to be blocked:

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no

Bednar

Trilby

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Re: WIFI Led off each time on boot - need to manually toggle to off/on

Odd - that is before you toggle the switch, right?

Can you also provide the output of the first command below before toggling the switch?  You can also test whether the second command has the same effect as the switch:

ip a

sudo ip link set <interface> up

Noe <interface> should be your wireless interface.

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Bednar

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Re: WIFI Led off each time on boot - need to manually toggle to off/on

The output is the same before and after I manually toggle the switch.

ip a:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp2s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1e:33:df:0e:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:24:d2:ea:1f:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
    inet 192.168.1.102/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic wlp3s0
       valid_lft 86070sec preferred_lft 86070sec
    inet6 fe80::224:d2ff:feea:1fa2/64 scope link 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

sudo ip link set wlp3s0 up doesn't do anything. no errors, command is accepted in the terminal, but it's not bringing wifi back. I have to manually set the slider to off and then to on for it to work.

Bednar

Bednar

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Re: WIFI Led off each time on boot - need to manually toggle to off/on

Apologies, this is ip a BEFORE toggling the switch manually:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default 
    link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
    inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
    inet6 ::1/128 scope host 
       valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp2s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:1e:33:df:0e:b6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
3: wlp3s0: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state DOWN group default qlen 1000
    link/ether 00:24:d2:ea:1f:a2 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

Bednar

Bednar

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Re: WIFI Led off each time on boot - need to manually toggle to off/on

Any ideas guys. The laptop just updated to 4.1.8 LTS and the problem hasn't disappeared.

B.