HP EliteBook 8460p not able to turn on the wireless

[payala]

Hello experts,

I've been trying to enable my wireless lan card but with no luck. I already tried a lot of things that I found on the internet, this is my information:

root@kali:~# inxi -n
Network:   Card-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection driver: e1000e
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full
           mac: e4:11:5b:30:86:26
           Card-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak]
           driver: iwlwifi
           IF: wlan0 state: down mac: d2:d4:9d:76:08:14
root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
root@kali:~# dmesg | tail
[   22.646427] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[   22.741177] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   22.835287] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   24.566141] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[   24.566195] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   26.368350] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[   26.368454] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: Not sending command - RF KILL
[   26.368483] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: Not sending command - RF KILL
[   26.368915] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[   50.980792] fuse init (API version 7.26)
root@kali:~# rfkill unblock all
root@kali:~# rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: yes
root@kali:~# ifconfig wlan0 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill
root@kali:~# dmesg | tail
[   22.646427] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: Radio type=0x1-0x2-0x0
[   22.741177] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   22.835287] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[   24.566141] e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: None
[   24.566195] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
[   26.368350] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[   26.368454] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: Not sending command - RF KILL
[   26.368483] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: Not sending command - RF KILL
[   26.368915] iwlwifi 0000:24:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[   50.980792] fuse init (API version 7.26)
root@kali:~#

I'm not sure what's going on, any thoughts?

Thanks

[_defalt]

If you see acer-wireless in the output of rfkill list all then this solution will work for you: https://forums.kali.org/showthread.p...light=acer_wmi

[payala]

Unfortunately, I don't have it: this is the current output:

root@kali:~# rfkill list all
0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
root@kali:~#

[_defalt]

Show the output of lsmod

[payala]

It's working now. My WLAN interface gets hard blocked when I connect by wire. I didn't know about this feature.

Thanks for all your help.