I have a problem with setting up my wireless connection. Recently I have installed Arch Linux on my machine without setting wireless at all (I used wired connection). Now, I want to configure my wireless connection but I when I try to turn it on:
idea-arch ~ # ip link set wlp8s0 up
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
Here are some outputs:
idea-arch ~ # ip link
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN mode DEFAULT
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
2: enp7s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether dc:0e:a1:7d:af:5f brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
6: wlp8s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT qlen 1000
link/ether 74:e5:0b:cc:80:ba brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
idea-arch ~ # rfkill list all
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
5: phy3: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
I have tried using Fn+F5 but it leads only to soft block. Also, I have tried rmmod iwlwifi
and rmmod iwldvm
while I have my hardware switch on laptot off. Then I turn it on my laptot and did modprobe iwlwifi
and modprobe iwldvm
- still no success.
I am using Lenovo Ideapad Y570, shiped with Windows 7 but reinstall to only Arch Linux machine. My network adapters according to lspci|grep -i net
are:
idea-arch ~ # lspci|grep -i net
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57781 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe (rev 10)
08:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]
I am sure that hardware switch is on. What else can I do?