I’m working on a debian machine which has it’s wireless access disabled. Sometime in the past I followed a guide (which I can’t find) about permanently disabling wifi in linux. I’m trying to determine what is blocking the interface and how to re-enable it.
Things I’ve checked so far:
BIOS –
The wireless device is recognized and enabled, which is good.
Desktop – No options visible for wifi, only wired connections.
ifconfig – returns enp3s0 (Ethernet) and loopback, no wlan.
nmcli dev status – shows the same interfaces as ifconfig
iwconfig – lists the same results, “no wireless extentions”
modeprobe.d looks empty
rfkill isn’t blocking anything
nmcli radio – returns wifi is enabled
When listing all pci devices with lspci I see both Ethernet and the wireless Network controller.
I think the way I disabled wifi in the first place was by placing some lines in a bash script, but can’t remember if this is called on startup or if I runned it once.
How should I troubleshoot this? Any help is appreciated,
Thanks!
