wireless drivers ("hardware disabled") [closed]

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This issue is for specific laptops only. I manage to enable wifi using simple trick. When you login to fedora put laptop on standby mode and then bring back to main. Wifi will be enabled.

First you realy should upgrade to Fedora 19 as 17 is almost EOL.

What is the output of the rfkill list command,

# rfkill list
0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: no
1: tpacpi_wwan_sw: Wireless WAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

Hardware lock means you actually need to flip the switch to enable the Wifi module, in most cases it's a mechanical switch on the side of the computer, on some other cases it's a dedicated button on top of the keyboard.