[SOLVED] Wifi is disabled or possibly hard blocked on Lenovo - RHEL 7
I've spent days on trying to get my wireless to work on my Lenovo Legion Y720. I am unable to understand why it's not working when the drivers are detected at boot using dmesg:
[ 16.089403] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: loaded firmware version 21.302800.0 op_mode iwlmvm [ 16.105606] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless AC 8265, REV=0x230 [ 16.107786] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled [ 16.108187] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: L1 Enabled - LTR Enabled
iwconfigwlp2s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=0 dBm Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:on lo no wireless extensions. virbr0-nic no wireless extensions. virbr0 no wireless extensions. enp7s0 no wireless extensions.
I am also running the latest
NetworkManagerNetworkManager-wifiNetworkManager-1.4.0-20.el7_3.x86_64 NetworkManager-wifi-1.4.0-20.el7_3.x86_64
lspci | grep Network : 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 24fd (rev 78)
The
rfkill list all0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes 2: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 3: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
lshw -C network*-network DISABLED description: Wireless interface product: Intel Corporation vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0 logical name: wlp2s0 version: 78 serial: 86:2e:60:12:1b:1c width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.10.0-514.21.1.el7.x86_64 firmware=21.302800.0 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 resources: irq:136 memory:94000000-94001fff
cat /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state[main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true
The contents of my /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file are:
[main] plugins=ifcfg-rh
Any help would be much appreciated,
thx
EDIT: SOLUTION:
Had to blacklist
ideapad_laptopsudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ideapad.conf "blacklist ideapad_laptop"
I guess a hard block can be caused by multiple modules and/or firmware trying to use the same device.
Original forum where I found the solution:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/893384/wifi-doesnt-work-on-fresh-ubuntu-16-04
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