Re: enable wifi on sid

[Paul Scott <waterhorsemusic@aol.com>]

On 5/13/25 10:57 AM, David Wright wrote:
> 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.
Thank you!

Just installing rfkill solved the problem.

Have a great day,

Paul