No Wifi

    I am running LibreELEC on an old PC Toshiba Ultrabook. I have a separate thread running on how to get HDMI working.

    I have reinstalled many times but now I cannot see any wifi networks when I reinstall.

    Luckily I have a wired connection available.

    Has my wifi card died? My dmesg output is attached.

    Maybe it's time to dump this old machine....

    Code
    [    8.021395] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 2230 BGN, REV=0xC8
[    8.034790] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)
[    8.034841] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.

    Card is detected but disabled by configuration.

    Is there a physical Wifi DIsable switch at your case? If not check the BIOS settings.

    Thanks again.

    The key on the laptop for getting into the BIOS is F12, but it's also the key , using function (Fn 12), to enable/ disable Wifi.

    I was pretty certain that the Fn12 key was a Windows only thing. I was wrong.

    Pressing Fn 12 key and all the SSID's jump into the list in LibreELEC/ Connections. Amazing. Thanks a million. Cool.

    One other question, should I be worried about this line in dmesg?

    7.888136] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

    Quote from patfenton

    One other question, should I be worried about this line in dmesg?

    7.888136] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.

    Not really, but you can try (from mind, may be fuzzy):

    Shell session
    umount /dev/sdb1
fsck -a /dev/sdb1