On 5/4/23 16:12, zithro wrote:
On 05 May 2023 00:24, David Christensen wrote:
# 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
Strange, looks like you have two wlan NICs ? Oh, maybe it's the
bluetooth module.
Dunno, wireless sucks anyways ^^
So, to determine the correct WLAN adapter run both :
lspci -s 03:00.0
lspci -s 0b:00.0
2023-05-04 16:23:44 root@laalaa ~
# lspci -s 03:00.0
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205
[Taylor Peak] (rev 34)
2023-05-04 16:23:50 root@laalaa ~
# lspci -s 0b:00.0
0b:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. 1394 OHCI Compliant Host
Controller (rev 05)
So, there are three (3) files matching the description offered by
Christoph Brinkhaus, and they all contain "0\n".
This is strange, he indicated that 0 is for normal ops, and 1 for blocked.
# systemctl --status rfkill
systemctl: unrecognized option '--status'
My bad, it's
# systemctl status rfkill
2023-05-04 16:23:57 root@laalaa ~
# systemctl status rfkill
Unit rfkill.service could not be found.
Is the rfkill *module* loaded ?
# lsmod | grep rfkill
# lsmod | grep rfkill
rfkill 32768 4 dell_laptop,dell_rbtn,cfg80211
Good, it's loaded.
And there's a hint, the module "dell_rbtn", which should mean dell radio
button.
Is the rfkill *tool* installed ?
# dpkg -l "*rfkill*"
dpkg-query: no packages found matching *rfkill*
If not, install it
# apt install rfkill
You did not install it :p
2023-05-04 16:24:49 root@laalaa ~
# apt install rfkill
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
rfkill
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 88.6 kB of archives.
After this operation, 151 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 rfkill amd64
2.36.1-8+deb11u1 [88.6 kB]
Fetched 88.6 kB in 0s (445 kB/s)
Selecting previously unselected package rfkill.
(Reading database ... 167563 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../rfkill_2.36.1-8+deb11u1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking rfkill (2.36.1-8+deb11u1) ...
Setting up rfkill (2.36.1-8+deb11u1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.9.4-2) ...
Reboot. Login. Xfce Panel -> right click NetworkManager -> Enable
Wi-Fi -- Wi-Fi did not start. Try Enable Wi-Fi a couple three more
times -- nope:
2023-05-04 16:32:26 root@laalaa ~
# tail /var/log/syslog
May 4 16:30:37 laalaa systemd[1552]: Reached target Main User Target.
May 4 16:30:37 laalaa systemd[1552]: Startup finished in 125ms.
May 4 16:30:37 laalaa systemd[1]: Started User Manager for UID 0.
May 4 16:30:37 laalaa systemd[1]: Started Session 5 of user root.
May 4 16:31:17 laalaa NetworkManager[850]: <info> [1683243077.3070]
audit: op="radio-control" arg="wireless-enabled" pid=1418 uid=13250
result="success"
May 4 16:32:21 laalaa NetworkManager[850]: <info> [1683243141.1786]
audit: op="radio-control" arg="wireless-enabled" pid=1418 uid=13250
result="success"
May 4 16:32:21 laalaa systemd[1]: Started Run anacron jobs.
May 4 16:32:21 laalaa anacron[1593]: Anacron 2.3 started on 2023-05-04
May 4 16:32:21 laalaa anacron[1593]: Normal exit (0 jobs run)
May 4 16:32:21 laalaa systemd[1]: anacron.service: Succeeded.
Try Debian 9 -- nope.
Try Windows 7 Pro -- nope.
It looks like I have a dead Wi-Fi adapter.
Thank you for the help. :-)
David
