Broadcom BCM43224 - 14e4:4353 - SOLVED!

[g0lrk]

Hello,
I'm on Mint 17.3 Mate and I inadvertently stopped the WI-Fi on my Dell Vostro Laptop whilst I was using it, because the darned thing kept connecting to it instead of the eth0 which I wanted it to connect to at the time to sort out a problem with the router rather than the separate WI-Fi repeater.
Anyway I find that I'm now unable to connect to anything WI-Fi as it is 'greyed out'.

Typing

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rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no

As youcan see, I've searched both on here and on the the Ubuntu Forums but keep getting conflicting answers, as you do!

I have a 15.5 kb file which I created from a file downloaded from here, and the Ubuntu Forums, [this one], https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireles ... eless-info but don't have anywhere on-line to post it, and don't know if it's too large for here even though it may well help me.

I'll stop for now and await anyone to reply, please!

Thanks in advance.

g0lrk.

[JeremyB]

You should be able to do

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cat wireless-info.txt | nc termbin.com 9999

Post the URL and that should be the contents of the file

[g0lrk]

JeremyB:
http://termbin.com/dg7e
Does that make sense?

g0lrk

[g0lrk]

I'll borrow the cats brain cell this time and try again!

Yeah that's posted up to your site OK JeremyB:

Sorry one of those days I think

g0lrk

[JeremyB]

Is there a slider on one of the Network Manager GUI's to enable wifi? It appears that Airplane mode is on. It can be fixed in terminal

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sudo sed -i 's/WirelessEnabled=false/WirelessEnabled=true/' /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state

You might need to reboot and then

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rfkill unblock all

[g0lrk]

JeremyB:
I ran the first command you pasted for me and rebooted and the WI-Fi suddenly appeared once more so I haven't ran the second command yet and am awaiting to see what you say about if it will be OK to do so.

Is there a slider on one of the Network Manager GUI's to enable wifi?

No, I couldn't see one as such there is generally, as I'm sure you're aware, a click on the wired network connection to get to the Wi-Fi, but it was all greyed out and not available to me.

g0lrk.

[JeremyB]

I don't use MATE so I don't know where the airplane mode toggle would be to disable wifi as that is normally how that file gets changed. Since wifi works, you don't need to run the second command. Please edit you original post and add SOLVED to the subject line

[g0lrk]

JeremyB:
OK I shall leave it as it is then

Many thanks indeed for the help, I really appreciate it and I do know not to touch the WI-Fi any-more if it's working.

Cheers for that JeremyB.