Bug#756947: general: unble to re-enable wifi/bt after hardware or software disable
al wilson <al_wilson@ns.sympatico.ca> writes:
> diabling the wifi radio via hardware button or via network manager
> leaves radios (wifi and bt) disabled. Only means to re-enable is via
> BIOS - restore defaults (no BIOS setting changed by user).
Does rfkill unblock succeed in re-enabling your wireless? (You may have
to install the rfkill package.) If so, that probably indicates a bug of
some kind in Network Manager. If not, that probably means that Linux
itself doesn't support re-enabling the wireless device from software (or
at least rfkill doesn't know how), which you could report as a bug against
the relevant wireless drivers, but which is a deeper problem.
One other thing that you could try is to be sure that the firmware for
your wireless card is installed. Some wireless cards have (often
non-free) firmware that is required to enable various features. That's
packaged as the various firmware-* packages.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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