Hi Everyone! First Off I’m a raving neophyte Linux Noob so please forgive me if this is the wrong forum for my issue.
Secondly I have a Dell Inspiron R17 Laptop that came with Windows 8 factory installed, UEFI secure boot, etc, etc. I’m horrified at what Windows 8 looks like and works like so I thought I’d try another Operating System. I’ve worked with Linux in one previous job environment as a social worker but I have no experience besides using the interface we used at work but I liked it so I thought “hey! I’ll install Linux! That worked really well!”. Ok so, maybe some forethought, planning and serious reading might have been in order, but I also thought “No one would put an Operating System out that didn’t work, right?” So I blindly installed OpenSuse Linux after creating a free spot on the laptop’s HDD.
Everything seems to have gone just fine…EXCEPT! under both LInux and Windows the Intel Wireless N-2230 adapter on the laptop doesn’t work now in either Windows or Linux. In linux, according to Gnome’s setup the hardware is “unavailable” and in Windows the hardware shows up in window’s Device Manager, it says it’s working properly but the wireless networking will not “turn on”. Is there anyone out there that would know what is causing this issue? how to correct it? and how to keep it from happening again? Please don’t tell me the laptop is trashed now because I was an idiot. lol
On Sat 14 Sep 2013 09:06:02 PM CDT, Rechlai wrote:
Hi Everyone! First Off I’m a raving neophyte Linux Noob so please
forgive me if this is the wrong forum for my issue.
Secondly I have a Dell Inspiron R17 Laptop that came with Windows 8
factory installed, UEFI secure boot, etc, etc. I’m horrified at what
Windows 8 looks like and works like so I thought I’d try another
Operating System. I’ve worked with Linux in one previous job environment
as a social worker but I have no experience besides using the interface
we used at work but I liked it so I thought “hey! I’ll install Linux!
That worked really well!”. Ok so, maybe some forethought, planning and
serious reading might have been in order, but I also thought “No one
would put an Operating System out that didn’t work, right?” So I blindly
installed OpenSuse Linux after creating a free spot on the laptop’s HDD.
Everything seems to have gone just fine…EXCEPT! under both LInux and
Windows the Intel Wireless N-2230 adapter on the laptop doesn’t work now
in either Windows or Linux. In linux, according to Gnome’s setup the
hardware is “unavailable” and in Windows the hardware shows up in
window’s Device Manager, it says it’s working properly but the wireless
networking will not “turn on”. Is there anyone out there that would know
what is causing this issue? how to correct it? and how to keep it from
happening again? Please don’t tell me the laptop is trashed now because
I was an idiot. lol
Thanks in advance,
Rechlai
Hi
Install rfkill and check that it’s not blocked (needs to be run as root
user);
zypper in rfkill
rfkill list
If they are hard blocked then there is a switch somewhere, softblocked,
run;
rfkill unblock <number>
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