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raven

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Registered: 2016-12-19

Posts: 4

Wlan hard blocked

Hello all!

My Wlan is hardblocked after installation of q4os. I did sone research and only found the solution to install xp again (wiped it off the machine). Problem is I got no copy of xp...
Maybe someone can help?

Medion laptop 40100

output of lspci -nnk | grep -i net -A2:
03:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter [10ec:8139] (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Wistron Corp. Device [17c0:1053]
        Kernel driver in use: 8139too
03:06.0 Network controller [0280]: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] [1260:3890] (rev 01)
        Subsystem: Z-Com, Inc. XG-600 and clones Wireless Adapter [17cf:0014]
        Kernel driver in use: p54pci

output of rfkill list:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

output of lspci (shortened)
03:04.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI7x20 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port PHY/Link-Layer Controller
03:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 SD/MS-Pro Controller
03:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8100/8101L/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter (rev 10)
03:06.0 Network controller: Intersil Corporation ISL3890 [Prism GT/Prism Duette]/ISL3886 [Prism Javelin/Prism Xbow] (rev 01)

Thanks!

bin

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2016-01-28

Posts: 1,333

Re: Wlan hard blocked

try:-
'sudo rfkill unblock all' or
'sudo rfkill unblock 0'

Sometimes it can help to boot into bios and do a reset to default - this does help with wifi whee there is no hardware switch.

Are any of the buttons by the power switch used to enable/disable wifi?

raven

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Registered: 2016-12-19

Posts: 4

Re: Wlan hard blocked

Thanks for your quick reply,
rfkill commands have been done with no success, bios reset too. The wifi button does nothing since the intallation of q4os, but was functioning under xp...

q4osteam

Q4OS Team

Registered: 2015-12-06

Posts: 4,501

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Re: Wlan hard blocked

You could try to install and boot kernel 4.7:
$ qinst-kernel-bpo
please see http://www.q4os.org/dqa011.html#system.5

raven

Member

Registered: 2016-12-19

Posts: 4

Re: Wlan hard blocked

Tried it with no effect. found a copy of xp, so I will try to install it again, switch the button and then reinstall q4os. i will report the results here later on.

MC

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Registered: 2015-12-23

Posts: 182

Re: Wlan hard blocked

Hi raven. A quick search of "linux Medion laptop 40100" shows some really old posts as far back as 2003.

It looks like someone figured out a fix here: http://osdir.com/ml/linux.drivers.prism … 00209.html

In windows on this laptop a special wireless button has to be pressed to
make a special wireless led light up. After this the wireless card can
be used. Because all my attempt to make this card work in linux failed,
I suspected this behavior may be hardwired in this laptop. Because this
laptop has a lot of characteristics in common with some acer laptops I
started hacking on the acer hotkey driver. I could get it to turn on the
led on loading the module. After this the card finally responds to
iwconfig commands.

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Q4OS running Xfce

raven

Member

Registered: 2016-12-19

Posts: 4

Re: Wlan hard blocked

Thanks for all your help, folks, but the problem couldn't be solved. Tried the link above but the acerhotkey drivers link didn't work anymore. Tried to find it elsewhere in first place but I've come to the conclusion that I'm better of with a wireless usb-stick and now I'm connected.
Even trying to unblock with xp got me nowhere. But the old card wouldn't be much fun anyway