My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

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My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

Post by Jade Tiki Puku »

I have a Lenovo X61 with Mint 17 Mate on it. My wifi is an Intel 4965 AGN and I have a Dynamode n dongle. I have tried a live CD and no success but all it says is "disabled by hardware switch" Is there anything in the repositories for this?

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tim@tim-ThinkPad-X61 ~ $ sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for tim:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)
==> PCI ID = 8086:4227 (rev 02)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
wlan1 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:on

eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

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

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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:72:96:30:b6
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21d:72ff:fe96:30b6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:47487 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:61930 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:43111265 (43.1 MB) TX bytes:53676601 (53.6 MB)
Interrupt:20 Memory:fe000000-fe020000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:268 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:25361 (25.3 KB) TX bytes:25361 (25.3 KB)

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* V. querying DHCP...
RTNETLINK answers: File exists
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
Server: 194.168.4.100
Address: 194.168.4.100#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.100
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.101
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.97
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.110
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.102
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.98
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.96
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.103
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.104
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.105
Name: google.com
Address: 74.125.230.99

tim@tim-ThinkPad-X61 ~ $
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Re: My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

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Hello Jade Tiki Puku and welcome to Mint Forums,

you can try this command in a terminal

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sudo rfkill unblock all
that may do it.
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Re: My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

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Thanks, but did not do it. Hmmmm....
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Re: My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

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Jade Tiki Puku wrote:Thanks, but did not do it. Hmmmm....
you'll have to find the hardware switch then. on my laptop is fn+f2 key.
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Re: My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

Post by Pierre »

or slide switch - on the side of the case.
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Re: My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

Post by simonbrown »

the reviews indicate the hardware wifi switch should be on the front. Hopefully it is as simple as having flicked it over inadvertently.
Jade Tiki Puku

Re: My Mint 17 Wifi is disabled by a hardware switch

Post by Jade Tiki Puku »

Thanks for that people, it is in the front, A1!
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