Cannot enable WIFI & Bluethooth at fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. «Hard blocks» or something else?.

[Bas G. Roufs]

Cannot enable WIFI & Bluethooth at fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.
«Hard blocks» or something else?.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/2065074

So far, I do not manage to get WIFI and Bluethooth enabled by the useful
steps at a fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS, at this laptop:
Lenovo Thinkpad X230 i5, along with 4 GB RAM, 250 GB SSD. A quick internet
search clarifies me that I am not the only one who deals with this problem.

I do work now with wired internet. However, this wired connection does not
help me so far to get the WIFI enabled. The same applies for Bluetooth.
Neither GUI approaches, nor command line solves anything so far.

Ticking the box for enabling WIFI is not possible. The same applies for
Bluetooth. Check the screenshots I send along with this bug report.
It's about the graphical check down under - fruitlessly trying to tick the
box to enable WIFI or the one to enable Bluetooth.
At each screenshot, you can see a red arrow pointing at a WIFI or Bluetooth
check box that cannot be ticked.

Here, I go through the screeenshots that I send along this bug report:

1. Mouse at WIFI connection corner right down under. I indicate the place
to look at by means of a red arrow.

1a. Focus at mouse pointer at WIFI connection corner right down under.

2. Enabling WIFI not possible. The red arrow and the mouse pointer point at
the box that cannot be ticked with a view to enabling WIFI.

2a. Detail - Enabling WIFI not possible. A more detailed look at the corner
where the red arrow points at the box that cannot be ticked.

3. Bluetooth disbabled. The red arrow and the mouse pointer both point at
the area where bluetooth should need to be enabled.

3a. Impossible to get Bluetooth enabled. After the click indicated by image
3, I end up here.... The button aimed at enabling Bluetooth cannot
be toggled. This button is being indicated by the mouse pointer and the red
arrow.

A few terminal checks so far do not solve the problem. However, more info
comes to the surface. Here below, I share the most important terminal
output results:


bas at Camino:~$ sudo ip link set wlp3s0 up
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
bas at Camino:~$
bas at Camino:~$ nmcli radio wifi disabled
bas at Camino:~$ nmcli radi wifi on
bas at Camino:~$ sudo nmcli radio wifi on
bas at Camino:~$ sudo ip link set wlp3s0 up
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
bas at Camino:~$
bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
bas at Camino:~$

For all terminal reports, other details, screeenshots and references, go to
this bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/2065074



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Bas G. Roufs

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Mook is about 10 km. south of Nijmegen and 10 km west of the German border.
Pronunciatiation -ou- family name «Roufs»: like in «about».
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