Allegedly, on or about 08 January 2016, Tom Horsley sent: > 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. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. along. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org