atheros ar542x hard blocked after ifconfig down and up

[999mcnally]

I am having some troubles with my networking. I have a fresh install of The newest Kali-Linux. My problem is: after I boot up I try to run this simple script and I get stuck in airplane mode:

ifconfig wlan0 down && macchanger -A wlan0 && ifconfig wlan0 up

I've attempted to us rfkill to unblock the hard block to no avail.

Here's a sample of what I'm talking about:

    ~# ifconfig


    eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1e:68:46:4b:ae 
             
         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
             
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             
            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
             
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)



    lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
             
         inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
             
         inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
             
         UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:65536  Metric:1
             
         RX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             
         TX packets:20 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
             
         RX bytes:1200 (1.1 KiB)  TX bytes:1200 (1.1 KiB)



    wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:3a:79:cc:6c 
             
         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
             
         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
             
         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
             
         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
             
         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

~# rfkill list

0: phy0: Wireless LAN
   
   Soft blocked: no
   
   Hard blocked: no

    ~# dmesg|grep ath

    [   13.983312] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control

    [   13.983648] ath5k 0000:03:00.0: registered as 'phy0'

    [   14.573215] ath: EEPROM regdomain: 0x64

    [   14.573221] ath: EEPROM indicates we should expect a direct regpair map

    [   14.573225] ath: Country alpha2 being used: 00

    [   14.573226] ath: Regpair used: 0x64

    [   14.614229] ath5k: phy0: Atheros AR2425 chip found (MAC: 0xe2, PHY: 0x70)




~# lsmod|grep ath

    ath5k                 139264  0

    ath                    24576  1 ath5k

    mac80211              487424  1 ath5k

    cfg80211              393216  3 ath,ath5k,mac80211

~# ifconfig wlan0 down && macchanger -A wlan0 && ifconfig wlan0 up

Current MAC:   00:1f:3a:79:cc:6c (Hon Hai Precision Ind.Co., Ltd.)

Permanent MAC: 00:1f:3a:79:cc:6c (Hon Hai Precision Ind.Co., Ltd.)

New MAC:       00:1d:d4:aa:73:d9 (ARRIS Group, Inc.)


    ~# rfkill list

    0: phy0: Wireless LAN
       
       Soft blocked: no
       
       Hard blocked: yes



    ~# rfkill unblock all



    ~# rfkill list

    0: phy0: Wireless LAN
       
       Soft blocked: no
       
       Hard blocked: yes

As you can see the ifconfig down and up hard blocks it. I've tried switching on and off the hardware on the front of the computer, however it stays stuck. When I reboot it's not in airplane mode but it gets messed up if I try to go into monitor mode or ifconfig down then up. Thanks for any help in advance.