[SOLVED] Hard blocked: YES

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[SOLVED] Hard blocked: YES

Post by Cowboy09 »

I turned off the internet connection on my other laptop (Mint 17.1) the other day, and now it won't let me switch WiFi back on in Network Settings.

I ran: sudo rfkill list all and saw my connection is being hard blocked.

How do I change this so my WiFi will connect again? How do I enable WiFi again?

Thanks in advance,
Cowboy09
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Re: Hard blocked: YES

Post by JeremyB »

Cowboy09 wrote:I turned off the internet connection on my other laptop (Mint 17.1) the other day, and now it won't let me switch WiFi back on in Network Settings.

I ran: sudo rfkill list all and saw my connection is being hard blocked.

How do I change this so my WiFi will connect again? How do I enable WiFi again?

Thanks in advance,
Cowboy09
A few commands to run in terminal

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rfkill list all

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lshw -c net

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lsmod | grep wmi
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Re: Hard blocked: YES

Post by Cowboy09 »

Hey! Thank you. Not sure which of those bottom-two commands did the trick, but everything reset and I'm back online with my other lappy. Gracias, amigo :D
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Re: [SOLVED] Hard blocked: YES

Post by Buzzsaw »

Not sure which of those bottom-two commands did the trick, but everything reset and I'm back online with my other lappy.
Neither of those commands did the trick; they only display system information. Something else that you did resolved your problem by accident.
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