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Dungeon4
Asked: 2019-12-10 19:30:51 +0800 CST

WiFi card HardBlocked on HP Pavilion dv6

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I'm running into some issues getting my WiFi card to work on my HP Pavilion dv6.

Product Number: A3E82AV

I thought it was the card, originally I had a RALINK RT5390 which wasn't working. I then ordered an INTEL Centrino Advanced-N 6235 AGN in hopes to get this working but no luck.

rfkill list all only has 1 entry showing: 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft Blocked: no Hard Blocked: yes

I tried numerous things and have not been able to figure this one out. Does anybody have any ideas?

Pressing F12 does not work. The light is red, stays red and i'm not getting much response from the button.

Thank you!

wireless dv6 intel hp

1 Answers

  1. Wow... It just started working. Not sure why though which is a little concerning...

    What I did:
    - Reset BIOS settings to default.
    - Restarted 3 times
    -> after 3rd reboot it started to work

    Makes no sense to me but I'll take it.

    I additionally downloaded and "installed" the driver (cp into /lib/firmware). Also disabled the network manager power settings by setting it from 3 to 2. And lastly set software & update settings to include Canonical Partners & Canonical Partners (Source Code).

    Again, not sure why it now works but yayy.
    @mchid - Thank you!!

    Thank you everyone else that looked at this

    -Dungeon4

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