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I do not want to see the following message when I login to my Pi (5.10.17-v8+ #1403 SMP PREEMPT Mon Feb 22 11:37:54 GMT 2021 aarch64 GNU/Linux):
Wi-Fi is currently blocked by rfkill.
Use raspi-config to set the country before use.
How can I make it so that this message does not show up when I login by SSH?
Run sudo raspi-config and set the wifi country code by going to
5 Localisation Options
Then
L4. WLAN Country
Then select your country code from the list
sudo raspi-config nonint do_wifi_country XX - use appropriate value for XX
Apr 11, 2021 at 2:58
I'm stealing/promoting @Jaromanda X's answer here, as it's a one-liner and avoids having to fumble through the "GUI" to set the Wi-Fi region/country:
sudo raspi-config nonint do_wifi_country XX
XX is country code, you can find your country's code here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1
I updated a Pi 3b to Bullseye and had this issue. I tried the country code and the urfkill installation and the rfkill unblock command. In the end, I also needed to run
sudo connmanctl enable wifi
This is described at the following: connman unable to connect to wifi: No carrier
No matter what I tried the raspi-config always failed with:
Could not communicate with wpa_supplicant
I already had the country code in the /etc/wpa_applicant/wpa_applicant.conf too.
In the end I used the rfkill command to enable it manually.
# rfkill unblock wifi
This seems to preserve the unblocked status, at least through warm-reboots.
Then (with quite a bit more stuffing around) it all worked.
It's a bit of a shame the "out-of-box" configuration scripts can't get this working.
rfkill list and you'll see Soft blocked: yes against the device. The unblocked status is saved in a file under /var/lib/systemd/rfkill/ and so survives a cold reboot. The point of this is to prevent unconfigured wifi transmitting on wrong frequencies for the country it's operating in.
Mar 16, 2022 at 8:02
/var/lib/systemd/rfkill/ wins out, but perhaps there are other good reasons that they do it that way.
Apr 11 at 10:56
The easiest way (that I've found) to programmatically make this message go away was to add the following to /boot/config.txt:
dtoverlay=disable-wifi
Yes, this does disable WiFi, but that was not a constraint in the original question (in other words, the question didn't say that disabling WiFi was unacceptable).
While I was at it, I also disabled Bluetooth, since I didn't need that either:
dtoverlay=disable-bt
ssh and therefore has some other kind of networking configured and working.
Mar 16, 2022 at 8:52
I encountered this problem setting up my Pi 4 with the 2021-10-30 version of Bullseye Lite. The howto I followed had a wpa_supplicant.conf file that started with:
country=US
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
and when I hooked up via Ethernet, rfkill complained that the country code was invalid. I used raspi-config to "update" it with the same value, and the first three lines came out as:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev
update_config=1
country=US
The WiFi started working correctly.
When I used the changed sequence on my Pi Zero W, it worked correctly the first time.
Looks like some code in the startup software is fussy about the order in which it finds parameters.
You might consider install urfkill, as in:
sudo apt install urfkill
sudo rfkill unblock wifi
That worked for me:
/etc/profile.d/wifi-check.shsudo rfkill unblock wifi(thanks @Kingsley) from the UART interface.