On Wednesday 30 Jul 2014 11:53:25 Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: > So I got a new Lenovo G50. > I found all the required drivers in kernel itself. Seems to be quite Linux > friendly so far (not installed desktop yet). > > There's one problem though. The kernel module ideapad-laptop which > apparently recognizes the hotkey stuff, backlight and some other things > doesn't let me use wireless. rfkill shows it's hard blocked. Is there any > way to change this? > > Some Google results tell me that this is related to the WiFi toggle via > windows. The machine never contained windows ( I bought it with freedos). > > I'm not comfortable with opening it to remove CMOS battery as suggested by > yet another Google search result.
What does 'rfkill enable wlan0' give you? It should be able to override any hotkey setting. -- Regards, Mick
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