Can't get wifi working

[jswervedizzle]

I can't get airplane mode turned off and wifi to work. I recently switched from WIndows (my wifi worked fine) to Kali and now my wifi won't work. I'm confident this is a linux issue since it worked fine before I installed Kali. I've researched this for a while and I can't figure it out. Here's some info:

root@kali:~# rfkill list all
0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes

This shows that it is a hardblock, but my hard switch is in the correct position and wifi is still blocked some how. I assure you that it is not because I didn't press the function + wifi key or the physical switch on the laptop. I checked that numerous times.

Some info about my chipset:

root@kali:~# airmon-ng

PHY	Interface	Driver		Chipset

phy0	wlan0		ath9k		Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

I'm not sure what to do at this point. I've tried 'rfkill unblock all', reseting my bios, hard restarting, and the rest of the obvious things. Can someone point me in the right direction because I'm out of ideas.

[pedropt]

first of all make sure that your laptop button to cut wifi is off .
the write on terminal :

rfkill unblock all

and check out if in network manager you have wireless activated .

[jswervedizzle]

first of all make sure that your laptop button to cut wifi is off .
the write on terminal :


and check out if in network manager you have wireless activated .

That was the first thing I tried. rfkill unblock all doesn't fix it and it says airplane is on in the network manager and I can't activate it.

[9h05t]

This is happened to me many times. So are you using Kali in VM or as standalone. Because I got this problem when using it in the VM.
The best way to solve this type the following commands.

rmmod -f <Wifi Driver> #Removing the selected module
rfkill unblock all #Unblocking all the Devices
modprobe <Wifi Driver> #Installing the Wifi Module.

Hope this helps.

[jswervedizzle]

This is happened to me many times. So are you using Kali in VM or as standalone. Because I got this problem when using it in the VM.
The best way to solve this type the following commands.

Hope this helps.

I've tried this before and I just tried it again. No luck. And I'm running it as a standalone.

[pedropt]

read this topic :
https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...ll-not-working

and this :
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2181558

Next time post here the brand and model of your laptop so people know witch hardware does that laptop incorporates .