My wireless is hard-blocked

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WI-FI doesn't work (Hard Blocked)

I'm new to linux and i am having trouble getting my wireless to work

I've found the following things

 Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes

and :

*-network DISABLED      
       description: Wireless interface
       product: RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
       vendor: Ralink corp.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 00
       serial: 6c:62:6d:19:38:b9
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800pci driverversion=3.2.0-25-generic-pae firmware=0.34 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:16 memory:fdfe0000-fdfefff

Can you please tell me what to do?

score 9 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 24 '12 at 14:10

9

Try:

rfkill unblock all

..or what RobinJ mentioned, try the hardware switch on your laptop:

hardware wifi wireless switch

answered Jun 24 '12 at 14:10

Savvas Radevic

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Cristian · Answer 2 · 2012-06-25T21:46:26.057

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For the problem with the wireless network my laptop msi cr630 has as a hard unblocker the Fn + F8 . Problem solved sorry to bother you :D

edited Jun 25 '12 at 21:46

answered Jun 24 '12 at 22:53

Cristian

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jul 05 '12 at 13:56

I found this and it worked for me.

This is how to get the wireless hardswitch to turn on using the terminal:

sudo apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source
sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

Then enter this command to turn it on:

cat /etc/modprobe.d/* | egrep '8180|acx|at76|ath|b43|bcm|CX|eth|ipw|irmware|isl| lbtf|orinoco|ndiswrapper|NPE|p54|prism|rtl|rt2|rt3 |rt6|rt7|witch|wl'

Reboot and see if it stays on.

My wireless is hard-blocked

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