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Qwart

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Registered: 2021-03-23

Posts: 32

[Solved] Everything got hardblocked out of nowhere

Full story: I've reseted the bios setting to default which bricked the GRUB, and then fixed it by reinstalling with installation medium. Now that everything is working again, but wifi and bluetooth are hard blocked (it worked before)

I've checked the bios. Everything in I/O port access is enabled, there are no switch off buttons or shortcuts on my Thinkpad T420s (I even tried out every Fn + F combination with no results). This also persist in installation medium, but cable connection does work

Output of rfkill:

0:tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: yes
1: tpacpi_wwan_sw: Wireless WAN
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
          Soft blocked: no
          Hard blocked: yes

Last edited by Qwart (2021-08-15 22:02:50)

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Re: [Solved] Everything got hardblocked out of nowhere

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Qwart

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Registered: 2021-03-23

Posts: 32

Re: [Solved] Everything got hardblocked out of nowhere

https://forumscdn.lenovo.com/old_attach … 0A23E1.png ?

Thanks for the info. I thought it was for something else as it didn't worked when I tried it, but then I opened the laptop and it turned out that the switch was damaged