WiFi not available LMDE 6 (solved)

[WadeK]

Today my computer says Wifi not available...
Last night it was working great...
I have tried to time shift to a date earlier this month, did not work...

Sony Vaio laptop. Device wlp2s0

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Network:
  Device-1: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
    speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:422c
  Device-2: Marvell Yukon Optima 88E8059 [PCIe Gigabit Ethernet with AVB]
    vendor: Sony driver: sky2 v: 1.30 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: b000
    bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 11ab:4381

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[sleeper12]

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rfkill list ; mokutil --sb-state

[WadeK]

0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: sony-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
EFI variables are not supported on this system

[sleeper12]

The wifi is hard blocked. Is there a switch or Fn & F key to turn it back on?

[WadeK]

Thank you

I turned the switch off/on several times and it finally took hold.

The switch is very easy to miss. Initially I could not see it.

It does seem to be working now.

[sleeper12]

Glad that worked for you. Edit your first post & add [SOLVED] to the Subject line.