How to enable atheros wlan

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#1

I’m new to Opensuse, and don’t know a lot about it.
My problem is that my network adapter seems to be disabled, I checked this file: /var/log/NetworkManager, this tells me the following, Wifi hardware radio set enabled and than wifi disabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file.
Next I checked Yast2 hardware information: Atheros WLAN controller, under drivers it says, Hwcfg bus: pci, Kernal Driver: ath9k, Model: Atheros WLAN controller, Old unique key: AVTU.H5RAfYdeFm9 and Parent Unique ID: qTvu.E08RIX_0lM2
The Enable wireless option does not do anything upon clicking.
I read the sticky threads but I still don’t know what to do.
Out of this line: wifi disabled by radio killswitch; enabled by state file. i guess, the radio killswitch disabled WIFI and that it can be enabled by the state file, but I don’t know how to do this.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

#2

Hi
You need to install the package called rfkill;


zypper in rfkill
rfkill list
rfkill unblock n

Where n is the identifies from the list.

#3

how do I install rfkill without internet?
do you mean n=ath9k?

#4

Hi
From the install medium. just open a terminal, switch to root user (su -) and run the zypper command and the others indicated in the previous post.

#5

After completely unplugging everything, I managed to move it all closer to the router, and after a long search i found a spare LAN cable. Installing now, but the installer also wants to install 200 other packages so it’s going to take a while.
Thanks for your help

#6

Hi
Yes, probably some updates etc :wink:

#7

the konsole says rfkill command not found

#8

Hi
So, switch to root user and install it :wink:


su -
password:
zypper in rfkill

It does need to be run as root user as well.

#9

Oke found that, now the konsole says: 1: phy0 Wireless LAN
soft blocked: no
hard blocked: yes
unblock 1 does not work

#10

OOOOOMMMMGGG i am so stupid, i pressed fn f12 and now there is no hard blocked anymore
thanks for your help

#11

Hi
Not at all stupid, you looked in all the right places, narrowed down the issue, posted good details on the issue :slight_smile: You just needed some pointers for tools, and worked out that hard blocked means a physical (or function) switch :wink:

So, welcome to openSUSE and the forum :slight_smile: :slight_smile: