Re: Is rfkill new?

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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.


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