Wifi Not Enabled Acer Aspire 4750

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sabirulla

Wifi Not Enabled Acer Aspire 4750

Post by sabirulla »

~$ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
~$ sudo rmmod acer-wmi

add below line at the end of the file : /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist acer-wmi

Then restart the system.
~$ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
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rodferan

Re: Wifi Not Enabled Acer Aspire 4750

Post by rodferan »

I have the same problem:

Network:
Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros AR9287 Wireless Network Adapter driver: ath9k
IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: 20:7c:8f:73:fd:7e
Device-2: Broadcom and subsidiaries NetLink BCM57785 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe
driver: tg3
IF: enp3s0f0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 20:6a:8a:52:06:ce
rodferan

Re: Wifi Not Enabled Acer Aspire 4750

Post by rodferan »

root@jose-Aspire-4750:/home/jose# rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

I can't open the file
bash: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf: Permission denied
JeremyB
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Re: Wifi Not Enabled Acer Aspire 4750

Post by JeremyB »

You can do this instead

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echo "blacklist acer-wmi" | sudo tee  /etc/modprobe.d/acer-wmi.conf
Reboot
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