Cannot enable WIFI & Bluethooth at fresh install of Kubuntu 24.04 LTS. «Hard blocks» or something else?.
Nils Kassube
kassube at gmx.net
Sat May 11 05:25:23 UTC 2024
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
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