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Solution to ‘Wireless disabled by Hardware switch’ on Ultimate Edition

PostPosted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 10:40 am
by Gilgamesh777
To get back your wifi, type in terminal:


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sudo rfkill list




You will get back something like this:



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0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no
    1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
    2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no
    4: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no




As you could see (0,2) the Wireless Lan has been soft blocked. We need to unblock it to get it up and working properly:


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 sudo rfkill unblock 0
sudo rfkill unblock 2






Restart your networking:


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sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart