NetworkManager Starts at Boot but With Wireless Disabled

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@feathersanddown

Just to add some information:

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When rebooted from Win7 rfkill items from list have different order, I don’t know if order affect something, even with soft blocked yes my bloototh device work, before when rebooting from linux it have that item with “yes” but appear first.

jagobook:/home/jago # rfkill list
0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
1: sony-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
3: hci0: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no
4: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no

And from your other thread:

@feathersanddown

well… even with acpi_backlight=vender is not entered when booting I have this:

lsmod | grep acer

acer_wmi        27504  0
sparce_keymap   13658 1 acer_wmi
wmi             18744 1 acer_wmi
rfkill          24962 5 acer_wmi, sony_laptop, cfg80211,bluetooth

and

cat /var/log/messages | grep accer_

probably original:
cat /var/log/messages | grep acer_
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acer_wmi: Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras

eleven times…

I have no Sony Vaio Laptop so I cannot test this.
But I would suspect the (wrongly loaded) acer-wmi kernel module as culprit here.

Compare in this forums: the threads (I) tagged with “acer-wmi” in the openSUSE Forums especally: Thread: Broadcom BCM4313 wireless problems in OpenSuse 12.1 and Thread: Cannot turn on wireless.

So you might try unloading this kernel module -
example given by

su -c "rmmod -v acer-wmi"

(will ask for your root password).

If this would work
than you probably want to blacklist the wrongly loaded acer-wmi
in order to prevent it been loaded in the beginning
(please post again if so).

Regards
Martin