On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:37:22 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Moncef Baazet <mob.ajm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:35:26 +0800, > > mercator wrote: > >> > >> Hi guys, > >> > >> After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused > to > >> show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but .... Below > is > >> my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : > >> > >> 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M > Gigabit > >> Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) > >> > >> > >> My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off > >> etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power > of > >> wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn > wifi > >> on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I > know), > >> > > n> And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill > list' > >> out put as follows : > >> > >> 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > >> ? ? ? ? Soft blocked: yes > >> ? ? ? ? Hard blocked: yes > >> > >> After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: > >> > >> 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN > >> ? ? ? ? Soft blocked: no > >> ? ? ? ? Hard blocked: yes > >> > >> And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any > way to > >> power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has > >> diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my > >> harddisk supporting windows install). > > Hi, > > I don't know if this is gonna help, but when I first installed Arch > > I had the same problem. What solved it was bringing my wireless > > interface up manually after activating the wifi switch. > > > > So check out your `ifconfig` output. If you don't see your wireless > > interface bring it up. `ifconfig wlan0 up`, or whatever your wireless > > interface name is. > > Hi, > > Is not ifconfig deprecated now? It is probably not present on the > OP's pc. There should be an equivalent command in the replacement. > You would probably have to use the following command. I am not sure > about the correctness, so please refer to the link. > > ip link set wlan0 up > > More information can be found at http://linux.die.net/man/8/ip > > > Hi Moncef and Jayesh, Thank you for your advice. I've tried both 'ifconfig' and 'ip link set', with 'wlan0' and 'eth1', and both said 'no such device'. So I think it's still a wifi power switch thing. On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:25:03 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: > I had a similar problem with another HP laptop. I was able to switch > on the wifi by pressing the wifi switch when I was in BIOS, but YMMV. > > Cheers, > > Tom > And thank you Tom. I tried pressing my wifi switch when in BIOS. But it is in a touch panel, so I cannot switch it on manually. And I wonder whether your wifi switch is in a touch panel or a seperate button? Thanks!
