removing an RF-kill command from a baby monitor to RTNETLINK

[jsonder]

My youngest son came to visit and brought their latest baby monitor. Apparently it issued an RF-kill command that my RTNETLINK has stored and continues to apply, despite my rebooting the modem and router.

The "problem" is that it has more than doubled the boot time due to a lot of searching, possibly on the wrong gateway, for the wi-fi signal.

While I am not unwilling to reinstall LMDE, I was hoping someone might know a fix for this.

Thanks,
John

[PatH57]

Hi,

let's have a look at your settings and network environment.

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wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && \chmod +x wireless_script && \./wireless_script

It will download a script and create a file named wireless-info.txt or wireless-info.tar.gz in your home folder with wireless information so we can see the condition of your wireless at the time. The MAC address, WPA key and WEP key are removed for your security. Paste contents of the wireless-info.txt or wireless-info.tar.gz file at http://pastebin.ubuntu.com or alternatively http://pastebin.com/ then post the link here in your question.

[jsonder]

Here's the link for the link:

http://pastebin.com/bi5zvASV

The question was whether there was a way to undo the RF-kill command that my LMDE's RTNETLINK made permanent because of the use of a baby monitor "hogging" the wi-fi bandwidth.

[PatH57]

LMDE doesn't do a rfkill on it's own, it may try to switch channels but will not block a devise unless you ask the OS or activated a wifi switch.
try

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sudo rfkill list

[jsonder]

Well, my ISP (Cox) was down all afternoon, so I went ahead and re-installed LMDE.

Hence, I can't test the suggested approach. The re-installation fixed the rfkill problem during bootup.

[PatH57]

well at least it is working now.
could you run the script again? I would just like to compare both and see what differences are visible, still puzzled on how an external piece of equipment could affect a setting on a unit (it can interfere as for example my microwave does when I use it the download speed goes down and as soon as I move a couple of feet away form it it goes up, that's however to expect)