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#1 2010-05-19 22:43:41

Radfahrer
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Registered: 2008-04-29
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Intel wifi iwl1000 is Hard blocked, can't remove it

Hi everybody,
I just install arch on my new lenovo edge and I can't get the wireless going.

lspci
Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 1000 Series
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)

I installed iwlwifi-1000-ucode.


dmesg | grep iwl
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 2.6.33-ARCH-ks
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000 Series BGN REV=0x6C
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 0 802.11a channels
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 2.6.33-ARCH-ks
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000 Series BGN REV=0x6C
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 0 802.11a channels
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn: Unknown parameter `help'
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 2.6.33-ARCH-ks
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000 Series BGN REV=0x6C
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 0 802.11a channels
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A disabled
iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 2.6.33-ARCH-ks
iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 1000 Series BGN REV=0x6C
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 0 802.11a channels
iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X
phy1: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
rfkill list
1: phy1: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

So the device is hardblocked but rfkill unblock all doesn't work. I have a key in the keyboard that is supposed to turn on wireless, but that key doen't work either.

Anyone have any ideas?
Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks.

Last edited by Radfahrer (2010-05-19 22:45:27)

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#2 2010-05-20 02:04:04

Ekimino
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Re: Intel wifi iwl1000 is Hard blocked, can't remove it

what if you try instead of all: rfkill 1 (maybe there's some sysadmin magic going on with this tongue)

is the module loaded?

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#3 2010-05-20 07:04:35

Radfahrer
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Re: Intel wifi iwl1000 is Hard blocked, can't remove it

Ekimino wrote:

what if you try instead of all: rfkill 1 (maybe there's some sysadmin magic going on with this tongue)

is the module loaded?

I tried rfkill 1 and some other combinations but no magic happened hmm

What module do you mean? I have the following iwl modules loaded

lsmod | grep iwl
iwlagn                238822  0 
iwlcore               155164  1 iwlagn
mac80211              171331  2 iwlagn,iwlcore
cfg80211              126817  3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

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#4 2010-05-20 10:29:37

demian
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From: Frankfurt, Germany
Registered: 2009-05-06
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Re: Intel wifi iwl1000 is Hard blocked, can't remove it

Check your BIOS for an Option to disable/enable wifi and toggle it. But if there's a switch on your machine that disables wireless extensions you have to physically flip the switch again to make wifi work, i guess.


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#5 2010-05-22 17:41:29

grizaptimus
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Registered: 2010-05-19
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Re: Intel wifi iwl1000 is Hard blocked, can't remove it

Sorry to kinda threadjack this, but I am having basically the same problem on my new HP 2540p. A couple of differences however I have the intel 6000 series wireless but there is no hardware wireless switch on the notebook, so I have no idea how it got hardblocked in the first place.  I have attempted to use rfkill and that did not work, I also tried turning off the wireless in the BIOS and then turning it back on after a reboot.  I installed Arch the first time and wireless was perfect, I decided to try debian and it worked there as well, when installing arch again however the wireless is now hardblocked.  When I installed debian again to see if the wireless would work again it was still hardblocked.  I have never loaded windows on this machine so it has nothing to do with this.

My lsmod and rfkill output is identical to the OP's

[SOLVED]  Apparently an option in the BIOS wasn't actually doing what it was suppose to.  I could change the option and nothing would happen, but when I resent the BIOS I was able to get it unblocked

Last edited by grizaptimus (2010-05-22 18:55:52)

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#6 2010-06-13 08:21:01

hsa2
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Re: Intel wifi iwl1000 is Hard blocked, can't remove it

I had same exact problem on my ASUS N61VG. Turn off your computer, remove the battery, put it back, and repeat this for a few times more smile Strange but, this solves my problem everytime I encounter.

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