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Used the search feature and went through a lot or rabbit holes.

Short version of the story....

The laptop has a Radio On / Off button, is lit (blue) cannot be turned off manually; just does nothing. Only time that goes amber is during reboot.
The MCC shows the wireless adapter and seems to be acting normal. However, not able to see any available networks.
The NIC (RJ45) works, no issues there.

Gives me the impression that is turned off and I have no idea on how to turn it on.

OS is Mageia 5 (updated to latest changes)
Kernel 4.1.15-desktop-2.mga5

Code: Select all: Using iwconfig command: wls1 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID: off/any Mode: Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% rfkill list command: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% After using rfkill unblock 0: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% After using rfkill unblock 1: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes

Thanks in advance.

See https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Setup_wirele ... ic_drivers - 8. bullet point.
You probably need to blacklist the dmi module that adds that pseudo hp-wifi rfkill interface.

Can you show the output as root of

Code: Select all: lsmod|grep -iE "dmi|hp"

Code: Select all: lsmod|grep -iE "dmi|hp" snd_hda_codec_hdmi 49152 1 snd_hda_codec 106496 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller hp_wmi 16384 0 sparse_keymap 16384 1 hp_wmi snd_hda_core 32768 5 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_controller snd_pcm 102400 4 snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_controller snd 69632 16 snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_conexant,snd_pcm,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel rfkill 24576 3 cfg80211,hp_wmi wmi 20480 1 hp_wmi shpchp 32768 0

You would need to blacklist the hp_wmi module as explained in the above mentioned link. Then try again after a reboot, if it still doesn't work, please again "rfkill list all" output.

Never done this before so took me a bit to understand.

Ran the command

Code: Select all: echo "blacklist-wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf

Rebooted the system

Run this command

Code: Select all: rfkill list all 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

Using the control network configuration GUI all available networks shows up.

Thanks Doc, seems to be in order.

R_Head wrote:Ran the command
Code: Select all
echo "blacklist-wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf

Nope, it should be

Code: Select all: echo "blacklist hp_wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf

You should also remove the line you added to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-mga.conf with your command, as it's not valid.

Or what you posted does not match what you typed on your box.

Is working that way... so if is wrong, how that happen?

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