I have seen many threads where going to sleep and then waking will cause the wifi to stop working, but I have the opposite problem. When booting up, the wifi will not work, and when trying to enable it using the system tray icon, it will just turn right back off. Then when I put the machine to sleep and wake it up, it starts working just fine. Has anyone else encountered this problem?
On 04/11/2014 03:26 PM, illumilore wrote:
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> I have seen many threads where going to sleep and then waking will cause
> the wifi to stop working, but I have the opposite problem. When booting
> up, the wifi will not work, and when trying to enable it using the
> system tray icon, it will just turn right back off. Then when I put the
> machine to sleep and wake it up, it starts working just fine. Has anyone
> else encountered this problem?
Do you want help resolving a “problem”, or are you just taking a survey? If the
former, please supply basic information such as openSUSE version, desktop,
wireless driver, method of wifi control (presumably NM), and such configuration
questions.
If you want to fix the problem, also post any differences between the following
commands run before and after putting it to sleep:
sudo /usr/sbin/iwlist scan
/usr/sbin/rfkill list
If the rfkill command is not found, then ‘sudo zypper install rfkill’.
When the laptop first boots up, rfkill lists the phy0 as hard locked. If I press the wireless hotkey button that should toggle the bios control lock of the wireless on/off, rfkill then says it is only softlocked, but as soon as I click enable wireless in the kde system tray network manager, the toggle switch there briefly enables, then grays out, while rfkill then says it is now hard blocked again.
$ sudo iwlist scan
root’s password:
eth0 Interface doesn’t support scanning.
lo Interface doesn’t support scanning.
wlan0 Interface doesn’t support scanning : Network is down
$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Is there a way to fix this?