On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 11:24:32PM +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Monday 18 January 2016 18:42:23 Bob Holtzman wrote: > > Finally got around to installing jessie (clean install) on a thinkpad > > 420 and all seemes to go well except there is no wireless, only ethernet. > > > > lsmod shows iwlwifi but I can't get the radio to turn on. > > > > Installed firmware-linux-nonfree with no results. > > > > Any help appreciated. > > Mea culpa. It says. Thinkpad 420. > > Is there a wireless hardware switch which is turned off? Or for some > hardware, the wi-fi toggles on and off via one of the function keys. I.e., > wi-fi might be turned off some way at the hardware level.
That's the first thing I checked. Fn + F5 is the switch. When I try it, it just sits there and mocks me and wireless remains off.
