tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-08:20791 Philip Newton Philip Newton 2012-02-20T21:25:26Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-08:20791:985152 2012-02-20T21:25:26Z 2012-02-20T21:25:26Z ecstatic public 4 <p>So at some point during my trip to Saarbrücken for the qepHom last November, I managed to disabled the WiFi on my laptop. It has a hardware switch with an LED, and it somehow got into a state where it was permanently off, and clicking the switch didn't switch it back on.</p> <p>I couldn't enable WiFi from Network Manager because it said it was disabled by hardware switch ... but I had no idea how to get it working again. I was even considering reinstalling on the off-chance that that might fix it.</p> <p>But this evening I googled for "compaq nc6220 hardware wifi switch" and found <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=248553">this entry</a> which linked to <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=245404">this one</a>, which had the magic incantation!</p> <p>tl;dr: after installing "rfkill" and running <code>rfkill unblock wifi</code>, the LED started flashing, I got asked for my keychain password, and I was connected to my home WiFi network! Yay!</p><br /><br /><img src="https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=pne&ditemid=985152" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments