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by temple » Dec 14th, '12, 18:06
hello,
can someone help pls.. my wifi driver just stopped to work, i can not start it anymore:
error is:
ifconfig wlan0 up siocsifflags operation not possible due to rf-kill
my rfkill list:
0: hp-wifi: Wireless lan
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
rfkill unblock all does not help.. Hard blocked is still yes can someone advice how to fix it? I am lost now.. thx
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by alf » Dec 14th, '12, 18:12
temple wrote:Hard blocked: yes
That means it is either blocked by a hardware switch or a Fn-key. You have to use an one of these to unblock the device.
for windows problems reboot; for linux problems be root
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by temple » Dec 14th, '12, 18:19
omg.. 1000 thanks to you.. yes.. I unblocked it with fn.. it would be nice to be able to unblock it with rfkill.. thx a lot ..

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