I've just been getting switched over to fedora 23 from 22, and spent a long time figuring out why the heck my wifi dongle as access point didn't work any longer.
I finally found log messages about the interface being soft blocked by rfkill, which then led me down another rabbit hole to figure out what the heck rfkill and soft blocking was about.
Is rfkill completely new in fedora 23, or has it been around for a while, but the default recently changed to blocked rather than unblocked?
(I do have things working now by adding unblock code to my script that starts the access point).
On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 01:36:53PM -0500, Tom Horsley wrote:
I've just been getting switched over to fedora 23 from 22, and spent a long time figuring out why the heck my wifi dongle as access point didn't work any longer.
I finally found log messages about the interface being soft blocked by rfkill, which then led me down another rabbit hole to figure out what the heck rfkill and soft blocking was about.
Is rfkill completely new in fedora 23, or has it been around for a while, but the default recently changed to blocked rather than unblocked?
I dunno nuttin about 'soft blocked', but I remember seeing rfkill in fedora back when I was trying to get Fedora 10 running on my eeepc 901, which I think would have been circa 2009.
On 8 January 2016 at 18:36, Tom Horsley horsley1953@gmail.com wrote:
I've just been getting switched over to fedora 23 from 22, and spent a long time figuring out why the heck my wifi dongle as access point didn't work any longer.
I finally found log messages about the interface being soft blocked by rfkill, which then led me down another rabbit hole to figure out what the heck rfkill and soft blocking was about.
Is rfkill completely new in fedora 23, or has it been around for a while, but the default recently changed to blocked rather than unblocked?
(I do have things working now by adding unblock code to my script that starts the access point).
rfkill is just a tool that manipulates the state of the driver for various radio-type devices (bluetooth, wifi, I think wan) and reports on power (obviously it can't toggle hardware kill), it doesn't have it's own default. Not sure why your dongle is defaulting to off, could be a change in the driver somehow, or whatever tool you use to manage the connection.
(For a while in Fedora 1x series I had to use rfkill to toggle the software block on my old iwl3945 card as the driver would get into a state where it thought hardware kill was on. Eventually even that stopped working, not sure if there was some problem with the driver, but towards the end it stopped working in Windows too, so there may have been some hardware problem involved.)
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I finally found log messages about the interface being soft blocked by rfkill, which then led me down another rabbit hole to figure out what the heck rfkill and soft blocking was about.
Is rfkill completely new in fedora 23, or has it been around for a while, but the default recently changed to blocked rather than unblocked?
Does it monitor a hotkey to switch RF on and off? Do you have one on your keyboard? And does pressing it make any difference?
My laptop has a slider switch, which occasionally doesn't seem to be obeyed. There's also a F key hotkey sequence, that rarely has seemed to do anything.
On Sat, 09 Jan 2016 16:39:06 +1030 Tim wrote:
Does it monitor a hotkey to switch RF on and off? Do you have one on your keyboard? And does pressing it make any difference?
This is a desktop system, so I just have a logitech USB keyboard. If anything on the keyboard is supposed to be a wifi hotkey, I don't know anything about it :-).
It is the same keyboard and wifi dongle that doesn't have any rfkill problems on fedora 22.
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