wlan0 Problems
 

Mike Dwiggins writes:


My wife's HP Pavilion is driving me crazy. It is a built in Wireless
setup (Centrino built-in chip). Every time I try to activate it in
fc14.X86_64 I get the "Unable to Activate due to RF-kill" message!

Yum info rfkill returns that rfkill is not installed. I am lost, do I
need to install rfkill and then issue an unblock command?

I have tried everything else but do not want to install something I do
not need.


Just an off the wall suggestion: take a close look and see if there's a
tiny hardware switch that turns wireless on/off, somewhere on the side of
the laptop.


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wlan0 Problems
 

On 11/25/2011 9:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Mike Dwiggins writes:




My wife's HP Pavilion is driving me
crazy.* It is a built in Wireless


setup (Centrino built-in chip).* Every time I try to activate it
in


fc14.X86_64 I get the "Unable to Activate due to RF-kill"
message!




Yum info rfkill returns that rfkill is not installed.* I am
lost, do I


need to install rfkill and then issue an unblock command?




I have tried everything else but do not want to install
something I do


not need.





Just an off the wall suggestion: take a close look and see if
there's a tiny hardware switch that turns wireless on/off,
somewhere on the side of the laptop.










Tried that, there is a surface tap switch just like the one for
Audio.* It has no effect since Fedora was installed.*



The root of the problem seems to be that this version of Fedora does
not want to activate the wireless.* My HP G64 with the same software
version has no problems whatsoever!* It is indeed frustrating.





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wlan0 Problems
 

On 11/25/2011 11:06 PM, Mike Dwiggins wrote:


On 11/25/2011 9:42 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Mike Dwiggins writes:



My wife's HP Pavilion is driving me
crazy.* It is a built in Wireless

setup (Centrino built-in chip).* Every time I try to activate
it in

fc14.X86_64 I get the "Unable to Activate due to RF-kill"
message!



Yum info rfkill returns that rfkill is not installed.* I am
lost, do I

need to install rfkill and then issue an unblock command?



I have tried everything else but do not want to install
something I do

not need.




Just an off the wall suggestion: take a close look and see if
there's a tiny hardware switch that turns wireless on/off,
somewhere on the side of the laptop.









Tried that, there is a surface tap switch just like the one for
Audio.* It has no effect since Fedora was installed.*



The root of the problem seems to be that this version of Fedora
does not want to activate the wireless.* My HP G64 with the same
software version has no problems whatsoever!* It is indeed
frustrating.









I am having the same problem. Every since I had install Fedora 16,
my nvidia drivers won't compile. I get an error message that says
iwlan won't compile. I think it is a firmware problem.

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