I have recently acquired a Beagleboard Black for a project and am having some problems with WiFi rfkill soft blocking.
Following the the recommendations on the getting started page, I updated the system to the latest Jessie release, Debian 8.2 2015-11-12. I also followed the recommendation to update to the latest kernel: 4.1.13-ti-r36 as of this writing. I next attached a WiFi adaptor: Realtek Semiconductor RTL8188CUS 802.11n, and followed the recommendation to edit the /etc/network/interfaces file to uncomment the WLAN example and set the SSID and passphrase (using the output of wpa_passphrase). I saw that rfkill has the interface soft blocked; manually unblocking the interface, I can connect to my WiFi network, however, this does not survive a reboot, even though the systemd-rfkill service is running, which should preserve rfkill state across reboots. Further checking the service, I discovered that by default the rfkill service saves the state, but does not restore unless a kernel parameter, system.restore_state is set, which I have done in the uEnv.txt file via: cmdline=coherent_pool=1M quiet cape_universal=enable systemd.restore_state=1 Despite this, the WiFi is still blocked upon boot. Any ideas for what configuration changes are needed to get WiFi enabled (hopefully without a kludge tower of scripts, this ought to be a single parameter change somewhere)? -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
