No wifi after refreshing Cinnamon.

[McAwesome]

I have had linux mint 14 for a few days now, but I just changed my one panel, to two. But after I restarted cinnamon to apply the changes, the wifi doesn't work. It says I'm in airplane mode (which I switch out of), and the wifi switch is stuck on off.

[xtreme]

Hi there, I understand the frustration of not being able to use your Wi-Fi. It happens. I've had this problem in the past, but I resolved it using the method described below.

Open up a terminal and do:

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rfkill list all

If it yields something like:

1: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft Blocked: yes
Hard Blocked: yes
2: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard Blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft Blocked: no
Hard Blocked: Yes

then it means your Wi-Fi is blocked.

If that's the case, do:

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sudo rfkill unblock all

It worked for me. I hope this helps.

[McAwesome]

I just tried and it gave me

0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
When I did the second command, it asked for my password like it should... but it didn't let me type my password. So frustrating!