operation not possible due to RF-kill
an error I got after a @world update
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1. Operation not possible due to RF-kill
After a @world update1 I couldn’t start my wlan device. I always got:
„Operation not possible due to RF-kill“
I did:
# rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes
But I wasn’t able to unblock my device from the command line using rfkill unblock 0.
After a while I figured out that updating conman (to version 1.15) changed /var/lib/connman/settings like this:
[WiFi] Enable=false
I set it to true and it worked again. :)
Footnotes:
1
By "world update"" I mean something like emerge -auvDU @world or emerge @world --ask --update --verbose --changed-use --deep.
On gentoo this is like a sudo apt upgrade or sudo apt full-upgrade on a debian based machine.
It updates everything you have installed via the package manager you used.