RFKill is a subsystem in the Linux kernel that provides an interface through which radio transmitters in a computer system can be queried, activated, and deactivated.
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Can't unblock rfkill internal wifi, but usb wifi doesn't work either
Sometimes the internal wifi on my Amilo Pi 2515 is disabled and can't be enabled using the hardware switch (in BIOS too), since the device is a bit dated and this only occurred recently, I'm assuming ...
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Please Help! HP Pavilion 14. Wireless switch f12, rfkill not working, can not connect to wireless at all
Yesterday i installed Ubuntu onto my HP pavilion 14 laptop (running windows 8), i uninstalled Windows 8 because i hated it and put Ubuntu on top of it. I downloaded it off of a disk a burned from my ...
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Wifi Adapter Doesn't show up in Ubuntu 12.10
I bought a Belkin AC Wifi adapter recently because of its speed but also because I used a Belkin with a Raspberry Pi that used Debian so I thought it may work but it is the furthest from that. When I ...
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Wireless stops after some time but reappears on itself
I got my lenovo thinkpad t430 yesterday and happily installed Ubuntu 12.10 for the first time on one of my computers.
First everything worked fine but then the wireless suddenly stoped working.
If I ...
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What is the difference between “ifconfig interface down” and “rfkill block”?
I know rfkill block all will disable everything. But what about ifconfig interfaceX down? When I use it, it just drops the connection. And when I type ifconfig interfaceX up it reconnects to my old ...
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My wireless adapter is “Hard blocked” - WN2001 on an ASRock AMD E350M1/USB3
My wireless adapter is hard-blocked and i do not know how to fix it. I have tried the following:
sudo rfkill unblock all
sudo rmmod rtl8192cu && sudo modprobe rtl8192cu
sudo rm /dev/rfkill
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soft-blocked on my wireless interfaces
I have a new laptop with a centrino wireless card.
I installed ubuntu on it and all seemed fine until I upgraded the kernel, and rebooted.
My wireless stopped working despite toggling the wireless ...
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Can Ubuntu ignore the Wireless Hardware Switch?
This is not the same question as many others have asked. I have a perfectly functioning wireless card and switch on my HP Pavilion dv6910, running Ubuntu 12.04.
Unfortunately, the placement of this ...
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Hard blocking Wifi and Bluetooth
On my laptop with an Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter, Fn + F8, soft blocks the wifi but does not hard block it. This means that it is still powered and consuming battery.
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rfkill does not work for all the devices listed
when I write rfkill list I get this
0: sony-wifi Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: ...
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rf kill unblock all DOES NOT WORK!
Ubuntu 12.04 Wireless Disabled by Hardware Switch, rf kill unblock all, and rf kill list DOES NOT WORK! What next?
All I get is "Command "rf" not found"
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Wireless switch on Dell XT2 - strange behaviour of rfkill
I have an Dell Latitude XT2 using an Intel WLAN card (lspci lists it as "Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300") running Lubuntu 12.04 with recent updates. The laptop has a hardware WLAN switch.
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Wireless hard switch is enabled, can i turn it off with a command? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there a way to disable the hardware on/off switch for the Wireless interface?
Rfkill list shows that the hard switch is on. My keyboard is broken and can't use FN + ...
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How do I get amilo-rfkill support on a non-pae laptop? (a.k.a. where to get 3.5 kernels for oneiric)
The driver seems to be in the 3.3 tree, but I just installed 3.3.7 from the mainline kernel repository, cause I thought it would have the driver (3.3-rc7). But it is not included.
There are no newer ...
