two possible wifi devices competing, one is hard blocked - unable to connect wireless
- by patrickmw
blacklisted acer_wmi because that was showing up in the rfkill list
then ideapad_wlan was listed
$ rfkill list wifi
1: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
$ lshw -C network
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: AR8131 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Atheros Communications
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: c0
serial: f0:de:f1:12:21:e9
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.0-NAPI duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=192.168.1.139 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:42 memory:f0400000-f043ffff ioport:2000(size=128)
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth1
version: 01
serial: ac:81:12:38:ba:89
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=wl0 driverversion=5.100.82.38 latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
resources: irq:17 memory:f0500000-f0503fff
contents of /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
I'm not sure how to disable the wifi devices independently. I'm also not sure which device is the correct one. I think its the brcmw device.
Any suggestions?
