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Everytime I boot Ubuntu, my wifi lan is Soft-blocked. ( I did rfkill list, rfkill unblock wlan to verify the case. In addition I note that it is blocked some seconds after boot is finished).

how can I avoid this please ? What should I do to not block wlan ? Where is the thing to uncheck, to avoid this blocking ?

DRIVER it is iwlwifi.

NOTE In rc/local, I have added this:

rfkill unblock wlan
ifconnfig wlan0 up

But uit still results in the same state. Like if the rfkill block wlan is called seconds after rc.local.

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Your wifi might be disable for several reasons. I suggest you look into the logs (journalctl -b -0 if you use a recent version of Ubuntu).

This might be a problem with your network-manager configuration (assuming you use network-manager to access Internet, which is the default in Ubuntu), which can be found in the folder /var/lib/NetworkManager/.

EDIT: It can also be a problem with your kernel driver. I found that on this site: Cannot change soft block setting to "no" for AR9287 Wireless Network.

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  • Thank you. Actually journalctl does not exist on my system. Really I'm not Ubuntu but Mint 17.2 – 3pic Aug 31 '15 at 13:22
  • Then you can have a look at /var/log/messages or /var/log/messages.log (or any other file in /var/log depending on your configuration). The command journalctl is now standard in most recent Linux distributions, but it is optional Linux Mint. – Nicop Aug 31 '15 at 13:46
  • How will it help his wireless to work properly by blacklisting the driver?? – chili555 Aug 31 '15 at 14:11
  • It won't, thank you for pointing that out. I edited my post. Actually, the logs should be the easiest way to figure out what happens. – Nicop Aug 31 '15 at 14:29