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I'm not able to enable Wireless using the hardware switch on my HP ProBook4430s.

Because of this the Enable Wireless option is greyd out and I cannot enable it.

The greyd out option can be seen in the screenshot below.

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The results of iwconfig for my system are as follows,

lo        no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=off   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Also I tried to do the following,

    sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

but I got an error as below,

    SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

Also the result of sudo rfkill list all for my system is as follows,

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes
1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

How do I fix this problem?

Thanku!

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  • Try posting the results of iwconfig.
    – Onyris
    Jun 15, 2012 at 11:28

2 Answers 2

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Try when booting your computer:

  1. press f2? to get into bios
  2. press f9? to reset to default settings
  3. press f10? to save settings

Check if you're still hard blocked.

[keys are for my laptop which isn't a dell]

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  • this is probably the best answer around. got stuck with HardBlocked: yes, for some reason WiFi adapter has been disabled, and WiFi Hard Key (HP ProBook 6560b) didn't work since there are no default mapping in linux for it.
    – Tomo
    Aug 25, 2014 at 14:51
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Try doing

sudo rfkill unblock wlan

Then

sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

And report, by editing again your post, if there are errors.

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  • Thanks for ur answer. But the problem is still existing! And I edited my post as you said. Please do the needfull. Thankyou.
    – Sat93
    Jun 16, 2012 at 8:48

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