{"id":125,"date":"2020-11-08T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.themespiral.com\/trustnews\/?p=125"},"modified":"2021-06-14T01:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T01:45:50","slug":"how-to-fix-operation-not-possible-due-to-rf-kill-in-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/how-to-fix-operation-not-possible-due-to-rf-kill-in-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix Operation not possible due to RF-kill in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>you cannot bring back your wireless interface back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">ifconfig wlan up<\/span><\/code><\/strong>   wont work <br>you get the message <br><strong><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Operation not possible due to RF-Kill.<\/span><\/code><\/strong><br><br>Error is due to soft block or hard block, wireless card has been switched off from the kernel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Sudo rfkill list <\/span><\/code><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>find out what is being blocked <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">sudo rfkill unblock wifi<br>sudo rfkill unblock all <\/span><\/code><\/strong><br><br>re run <strong><code><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">sudo rfkill list<\/span><\/code><\/strong> to check if the wireless has been unblocked. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>you cannot bring back your wireless interface back. ifconfig wlan up wont work you get the message Operation not possible due to RF-Kill. Error is due to soft block or hard block, wireless card has been switched off from the kernel. Sudo rfkill list find out what is being blocked sudo rfkill unblock wifisudo rfkill &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/2020\/11\/08\/how-to-fix-operation-not-possible-due-to-rf-kill-in-linux\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to fix Operation not possible due to RF-kill in Linux&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2140,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/2140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teza.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}