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

[Nils Kassube]

On 11.05.24 Bas G. Roufs wrote:
> Short summary....
> 
> WIFI & Bluethooth at fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.
> «Hard blocks» gone. «Soft blocks» for Bluetooth only.

> WIFI issue solved, however Bluetooth not yet.

> A tiny switch at the front side of the laptop had turned off the WIFI
> function. I switched the switch back to the on positition - from that
> moment on, it was no problem any more to enable WIFI.

> Now I check both WIFI and Bluethooth...
> 
> bas at Camino:~$ rfkill list
> 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
>         Soft blocked: yes
>         Hard blocked: no
> 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
>         Soft blocked: no
>         Hard blocked: no

Did you try

rfkill unblock 0

to unblock bluetooth? I remember you tried it some time ago when it was still hard blocked.

Or you could start systemsettings -> "Bluetooth" -> "Enable"
and then either "Add New Device…" or "Configure…".


Nils