Re: Wi-Fi broken on Dell E6520, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN, Debian 11.7 Xfce
On 5/4/23 14:59, zithro wrote:
On 04 May 2023 23:26, David Christensen wrote:
On 5/4/23 13:36, Christoph Brinkhaus wrote:
Am Thu, May 04, 2023 at 01:14:12PM -0700 schrieb David Christensen:
[ 80.070510] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)
[ 80.070571] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable
radio.
This indicates rfkill is effectively blocking the wlan: "radio disabled"
There is a directory /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/ which holds a file named
by the Wi-Fi device. Here it is pci-0000:04:00.0:wlan. The content is
just a 0 for normal operation or 1 for Wi-Fi off which means RF_Kill.
Please check that file on your system and replace a possible 1 by a 0.
There is no /var/lib/systemd directory on the laptop:
Maybe it's elsewhere in /var ?
$ find /var -type d -name rfkill
Or in sysfs :
$ find /sys -type d -name rfkill
Else, look everywhere ^^
Thank you for replying. :-)
D'oh! The previous post was the wrong machine...
This is the laptop:
2023-05-04 15:10:58 root@laalaa ~
# find / -xdev -name rfkill
/var/lib/systemd/rfkill
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.10.0-22-amd64/include/config/rfkill
/usr/src/linux-headers-5.10.0-21-amd64/include/config/rfkill
/usr/lib/modules/5.10.0-21-amd64/kernel/net/rfkill
/usr/lib/modules/5.10.0-22-amd64/kernel/net/rfkill
2023-05-04 15:13:04 root@laalaa ~
# ls -l /var/lib/systemd/rfkill
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 May 4 12:15 pci-0000:03:00.0:wlan
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 May 24 2022 pci-0000:0b:00.0:wlan
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 May 4 13:04 platform-dell-laptop:wlan
2023-05-04 15:13:13 root@laalaa ~
# file /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/*
/var/lib/systemd/rfkill/pci-0000:03:00.0:wlan: ASCII text
/var/lib/systemd/rfkill/pci-0000:0b:00.0:wlan: ASCII text
/var/lib/systemd/rfkill/platform-dell-laptop:wlan: ASCII text
2023-05-04 15:13:39 root@laalaa ~
# cat /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/pci-0000\:03\:00.0\:wlan
0
2023-05-04 15:14:35 root@laalaa ~
# cat /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/pci-0000\:0b\:00.0\:wlan
0
2023-05-04 15:14:48 root@laalaa ~
# cat /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/platform-dell-laptop\:wlan
0
2023-05-04 15:17:53 root@laalaa ~
# hexdump /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/platform-dell-laptop\:wlan
00000000 30 0a |0.|
00000002
So, there are three (3) files matching the description offered by
Christoph Brinkhaus, and they all contain "0\n".
Things to check :
Check the status via systemctl (didn't know there was a service):
# systemctl --status rfkill
2023-05-04 15:15:40 root@laalaa ~
# systemctl --status rfkill
systemctl: unrecognized option '--status'
Is the rfkill *module* loaded ?
# lsmod | grep rfkill
2023-05-04 15:15:49 root@laalaa ~
# lsmod | grep rfkill
rfkill 32768 4 dell_laptop,dell_rbtn,cfg80211
If nothing, try loading the module :
# modprobe rfkill
Is the rfkill *tool* installed ?
# dpkg -l "*rfkill*"
2023-05-04 15:17:28 root@laalaa ~
# dpkg -l "*rfkill*"
dpkg-query: no packages found matching *rfkill*
If not, install it
# apt install rfkill
Comments or suggestions?
David
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