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I'm trying to set up my HP EliteBook 2530p with ArchLinux. Everything works except for the wifi card which is hardblocked by default.

Typing rfkill unblock all works and unblocks the wifi card until I restart the computer.

I'd like to set up systemctl to start the rfkill unblock service when my computer starts, but systemctl enable rfkill-unblock@all.service doesn't work. The service symbolic link is created, but when I reboot the computer and log in I still need to unblock my card manually. The funny part is that systemctl start rfkill-unblock@all.service works.

I think that something re-blocks my card after it has been unblocked, but I can't figure out what...

I tried to follow these instructions https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1210751#p1210751 but it doesn't work for me...

Can someone help me? Thanks

I also had a HP EliteBook 2530p with the same issue and solved it. To get my WiFi Card unblocked automatically I first followed the instructions from the link shared by Luda.

So first, create the file rfkill-unblock.service

nano /etc/systemd/system/rfkill-unblock.service

and inserted the following:

[Unit]

Description=RFKill-Unblock All Devices



[Service]

Type=oneshot

ExecStart=/usr/sbin/rfkill unblock all

ExecStop=

RemainAfterExit=yes



[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

Afterwards I enabled and started the startup-Script

systemctl enable rfkill-unblock.service

systemctl start rfkill-unblock.service

In a second step, I edited the /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf accordingly.

nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf



network={

        ssid="Name of AP"

        proto=WPA

        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

        pairwise=TKIP

        group=TKIP

        psk="Passphrase"

}

Finally I followed the archWiki and added the second unit, to bring the interface up and connect it to the AP on startup. Therefore, I created a file called wifi@[interface].service. [interface] must be replaced by the name (e.g. wlan0, wls1, etc.). The name can be retrieved with iw dev.

In my case I used the following commands:

iw dev

nano /etc/systemd/system/wifi@wls1.service

and put this text into the file.

[Unit]

Description=

#Wants=network.target

#Before=network.target

Wants=rfkill-unblock.service

After=rfkill-unblock.service

BindsTo=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device

After=sys-subsystem-net-devices-%i.device



[Service]

Type=oneshot

RemainAfterExit=yes



ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/ip link set dev %i up

ExecStart=/usr/bin/wpa_supplicant -B -i %i -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

ExecStart=/usr/bin/dhcpcd %i

ExecStop=/usr/bin/ip link set dev %i down



[Install]

WantedBy=multi-user.target

I changed the the dependency of this service, so it is not started with the network but after the rfkill-unblock.service. Once again I enabled and started the script.

systemctl enable wifi@wls1.service

systemctl start wifi@wls1.service

In my case, my wifi-device seems to connect on startup.

I hope this is of any help to you.