WIFI hw blocked: howto solve for ACER ES1 and Atheros 9k chip 31 October 2017, 11:51:31 Yesterday I installed Artix on an Acer notebook (ES1-251 with an AMD quadcore CPU). All was right since I had to interact with the WIFI: no way to activate it, both the internal wifi card and every USB dongle.Very strange cause it worked perfectly with Manjaro (I replaced Manjaro with Artix).After some trouble and dark thoughts... the solution has been:1) sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf2) insert the line: blacklist wmi3) save and reboot.All work immediately and rfkill stopped to see a hw block to the wifi card. I suspect that this solution may be useful also for other wifi cards. Looking inside the dmesg log, I discovered a wrong load of the wmi module. We can survive very well also without it Last Edit: 31 October 2017, 22:06:45 by francesco 1 Likes
Re: WIFI hw blocked: howto solve for ACER ES1 and Atheros 9k chip Reply #1 – 31 October 2017, 16:01:08 Excellent troubleshooting, again!
Re: WIFI hw blocked: howto solve for ACER ES1 and Atheros 9k chip Reply #2 – 31 October 2017, 19:10:48 What does the wmi module do? I's description reads: "ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver".
Re: WIFI hw blocked: howto solve for ACER ES1 and Atheros 9k chip Reply #3 – 31 October 2017, 22:05:35 Quote from: physkets – on 31 October 2017, 19:10:48What does the wmi module do? I's description reads: "ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver".Its this: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Windows-WMI-Linux-4.13.No other comments... 1 Likes