Re: enable wifi on sid
On Tue 13 May 2025 at 09:06:22 (-0700), Paul Scott wrote:
> On 5/13/25 8:55 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 08:45:41AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote:
> > > On 5/12/25 10:25 PM, Paul Scott wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > I see where it says that the wlp2s0 is DOWN
> > >
> > > I'm not having great luck finding a command to bring it up after looking at
> > >
> > > man ip
> > sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up
> >
> > ...but of course this won't connect you to the net.
> >
> > *IF* you have wireless-tools installed, then you could try
> >
> > sudo iwlist wlp2s0 scanning
> >
> > and you would get a list of the APs your wifi "sees".
> >
> > Now to get network, it depends on whether your machinery is
> > ifupdown, network manager, systemd-networkd or whatever.
> >
> > (With ifupdown I can help a bit, with the others there are
> > far more knowledgeable folks than me around here).
> >
> > Cheers
>
> Thank you. I just found the first of those commands.
>
> sudo ip link set wlp2s0 up gives:
>
> RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
$ /sbin/rfkill
should show what's blocked, and sudo rfkill unblock all
should unblock it.
Cheers,
David.
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