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

Thu May 9 15:51:19 UTC 2024

On Thursday 9 May 2024, I added the update here onder as update nr. 6 to
this bug:

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

Tests related to Bluetooth:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/641892/hcitool-scan-does-not-find-my-bluetooth-device

According to this article, the command hcitool dev should need to deliver a
list of Bluetooth devices. I get this non-result - though I have been using
Bluetooth at the same laptop, when it ran on Kubuntu 22.04.4. LTS:

bas at Camino:~$ hcitool dev
Devices:
bas at Camino:~$
bas at Camino:~$ hcitool -i hci1 scan
Invalid device: No such device

bas at Camino:~$ sudo hcitool scan
[sudo] password for bas:
Device is not available: No such device

WIFI and Bluetooth related tests based at this article:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/474219/wifi-is-hard-locked

bas at Camino:~$ rfkill unblock all
bas at Camino:~$
(Apparently, nothing happens.)

bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list all
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
bas at Camino:~$

The keyboard key combination FN and F5 at my Lenovo Thinkpad X230 should
need to switch on and switch off WIFI. However, nothing happens. I keep
getting this test result:

bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list all
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes

Info at page 47 of the hardware manual related to Lenovo Thinkpad X230:
FN+F5 ....Enables or disables the built-in wireless networking features.
Notes: If you want to use Fn+F5 to enable or disable the wireless features,
the following
device drivers must be installed on the computer beforehand:
• Power Management Driver
• On Screen Display Utility
• Wireless device drivers

Question - is there a way to get such drivers and to get them working at
Kubuntu 24.04 LTS?

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1325028/wifi-gets-hard-blocked-on-ubuntu-20-04-2-hp-15-series

bas at Camino:~$ sudo rfkill unblock 0
[sudo] password for bas:
bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
bas at Camino:~$

bas at Camino:~$ sudo rfkill unblock all
[sudo] password for bas:
bas at Camino:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-6.8.0-31-generic
bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
bas at Camino:~$

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1436900/wi-fi-and-bluetooth-got-hardblocked-after-upgrading-xubuntu-from-22-04-to-22-1

bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list all
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
bas at Camino:~$

Test after removing and reinserting battery:

bas at Camino:~$ sudo rfkill list all
[sudo] password for bas:
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: yes
bas at Camino:~$

SUMMARY SO FAR:

WIFI and Bluetooth works at Kubuntu 22.04.4. LTS. However, it does not at
Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. I have been using both LTS systems at exactly the same
laptop with the same BIOS settings.

Software and hardware system info
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-31-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-3320M CPU @ 2.60GHz
Memory: 3,5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4000
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 2325AZ8
System Version: ThinkPad X230

WHAT TO DO NEXT TO GET BACK WIFI AND Bluetooth?
===========================

Apparently, both WIFI and Bluetooth got hard blocked  after a fresh install
of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS at my laptop.
Kubuntu 22.04.4. was a fresh install of early April, at the same laptop,
with the same BIOS settings. In the BIOS, there is no password or security
lock. It's simply default stuff.

I have no clue what to do next.

Op wo 8 mei 2024 om 22:51 schreef Bas G. Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com>:

> Hello Friend.
>
>
>
> Op di 7 mei 2024 22:23 schreef Little Girl <littlergirl at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> Bas G. Roufs wrote:
>>
>> >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
>>
>> This may be of some use for the Bluetooth:
>>
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/641892/hcitool-scan-does-not-find-my-bluetooth-device
>>
>> One of these may be of some use for the WiFi:
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/474219/wifi-is-hard-locked
>>
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1325028/wifi-gets-hard-blocked-on-ubuntu-20-04-2-hp-15-series
>>
>> If there's no wireless button on the computer, check your computer's
>> manual for the wireless key-combination it uses to toggle WiFi. If
>> that information isn't available, you might want to call the
>> manufacturer and ask.
>>
>> This page may or may not be useful in some way for both of them:
>>
>>
>> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1436900/wi-fi-and-bluetooth-got-hardblocked-after-upgrading-xubuntu-from-22-04-to-22-1
>>
>> --
>> Little Girl
>>
>> There is no spoon.
>
>
>
> Thanks for all these useful advises.
> In the coming day, I gonna check all of them.
>
> Yours.
>
> Bas.
>
>
>
> ====
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>
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>
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>
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>

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