"Wifi is disabled" permanently on fresh install of Trisquel Mini on Librebooted Thinkpad X60.
I ran Trisquel on this fully free laptop for years and decided to switch to Trisquel mini. On a fresh install wifi does not work. The right click menu says that it is disabled, ans there is a box you can click to enable it, but checking the box does not change it. Using the fn+f5 keys to toggle the wifi card on and off does not change it either. I never had this problem on revualr trisquel. I don't know what to do. Please help me. Thank you.
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Try toggling the hardware wireless switch.
I said that I tried that.
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By hardware switch I mean a physical button on the laptop you need to toggle which needs to be in the "on" position (just to be clear, this doesn't refer to any function key shortcut). Nothing about a hardware switch appears in your first post. You can see where the hardware switch is located in this video:
Right; all they've said is they tried using the software method (fn+f5 keys) and not the physical KILL switch. Hopefully it's as simple as having been accidentally switched off at the hardware level.
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If you're unsure what they're talking about, the WiFi hardware switch on the X60 is at the front-center-bottom of the base of the laptop. Its "on" position is to the right, leaving a green surface exposed to the left. It's easy to accidentally turn the switch off. I would occasionally do so back when my X60 was my primary machine.
Oh my god. I have owned this laptop for 4 years. I have never once noticed that switch there on the bottom. Not once ever. I am a huge idiot. Thank you.
> I have never once
> noticed that switch there on the bottom.
It's easy to miss... and easy to flip by accident. :) I've done it many
times.
If that does not do it, show us the errors (or worse) the NetworkManager unit goes through:
$ journalctl -u NetworkManager -p 3
Also: was the Wifi working on the live system?
No ut was not working on the live system. This is all that command outputs.
The WiFi status light is off in this photo, so I think aloniv was right. Check the hardware switch at the bottom-front-center of the laptop.
If you have an Atheros WiFi card, run
$ apt policy open-ath9k-htc-firmware
to make sure that the firmware is installed.
If it is, run
$ nmcli radio wifi on
and copy/paste any error messages here.