Wifi is soft blocked after each reboot SOLVED

[Member SteveJJ]

I have just installed 19.3 antiX. (edited to correct version at user request)

I got WiFi working with the following:
1. sudo rfkill unblock all
2. set up the wifi connection using Connman (just select my WiFi service and added the password)

It works great… but after every reboot the connection is blocked in software, so I need to do “rfkill unblock all” every time. (I don’t need to run Connman – the settings are still there).

How can I stop the software block after each reboot?

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[Forum Admin anticapitalista]

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antiX jessie based versions (antiX-15 and antiX-16.x) reached end of life at the end of June 2020.

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[Member Xecure]

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Instead of doing rfkill unblock all, enable wifi from connman. As you don’t specify the antiX edition (base or full), I will give you the command to enable it independently of the connman gui used (FULL uses a different connman interface to BASE).
connmanctl enable wifi
Try rebooting and see if the change persists. It should.

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[Moderator caprea]

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In cmst , the GUI for connman, is Wifi set to “on” under Status-tab > Technologies ?

Edit: Or do the command from above, Xecure was faster

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Are you sure you are using 16.3? If you are, it did not ship with connman, but wicd and ceni.

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[Member Xecure]

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I think Stevejj was using a numpad, and mis-typed 6 (which is just below the 9 key).

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[Member SteveJJ]

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There are two sections:
– in the “Powered on” section, it is “On”
– in the “Tethered” section it is not enabled (if I click that it asks for some SSID info)

Anyhow it seems to be working now.

[Member SteveJJ]

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Sorry, yes I meant 19.3

[Member SteveJJ]

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I ran that command, but it reported an error, saying the wifi is already enabled.

It seems to have fixed the problem anyway, because the wifi is now working after a reboot.

[Member PFO]

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Hi antiX Group,

Same problem, but I get the error:
delete ‘/run/supplicant/wlan0

I screwed up when the WIFI modem went down and tried to connect with Connman, which appears to have created another supplicant file that is soft-blocking the CENI supplicant file.

All advice gladly taken.

[Member Xecure]

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You can use the gui tool or the cli command
antix-wifi-switch --cli ceni

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[Member PFO]

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Many thanx Xecure,

I get:
antix-wifi-switch – command not found

Do I need to be in ‘root’ to execute system changing commands?

Looking for ‘root’ command on WEB.

PFO

[Member PFO]

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Woops, I am in root, ran sudo yesterday.

BUT still get above error message – and when I type any command it asks for sudo password and I get:

Authentication failure

OK, now what?

[Member Xecure]

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This means your system hasn’t been updated since October. That tool was included in antix-goodies and should be on your system.

Anyway, you could do the manual steps to disable connman, stop wpa_supplicant, restart networking and try again with ceni
First, make sure wifi will never be soft-blocked again by connman, and disable connman from startup:

sudo service connman restart
connmanctl enable wifi
sudo service connman stop
sudo update-rc.d connman remove

Now stop wpa_supplicant and restart networking

sudo killall wpa_supplicant
sudo service networking restart

Now ceni should work again. Run
sudo ceni
and reconfigure your wifi.

The tool I mentioned would do all this for you automatically, so for now you need to do this manually.

Let us know if you can again reconnect to your wifi and browse webpages. If there is any issue we will try to help as best we can.

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OK, now out of root but ‘visudo’ and ‘su’ ccommands still yield an

authentication failure or

permission denied

Let’s reboot and try again.

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