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11 Responses to “Fixing SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 for Karmic wireless on Asus Eee 1008HA”

1. Alessandro // Jun 20, 2010 at 1:40 pm

   Hello, thanks for the solution. Here it works this way:
   rmmod ath9k
   rmmod ath9k_common
   rmmod ath9k_hw
   rmmod ath
   rmmod mac80211
   rmmod cfg80211
   rfkill block wifi
   modprobe ath9k
   rfkill unblock all
   ifconfig wlan0 up
   Hardware is an HP G60-468CA.

2. Sacha Chua // Jun 21, 2010 at 7:21 pm

   Great, thanks for sharing! =D

3. Scott // Jul 19, 2010 at 12:55 am

   This worked perfect, thank you!

4. spondbob // Feb 10, 2011 at 4:09 am

   thank you!
   this solved my problem,

5. kit // Mar 18, 2011 at 2:07 pm

   Worked! Thank you!

6. mynis // May 18, 2011 at 1:59 am

   Thank you! This worked very well.

7. Tiago Marques // Jul 10, 2011 at 4:44 am

   Install the asus_laptop module and it should fix everything. Worked for me on UL20FT.

8. chuck // Oct 13, 2011 at 10:21 am

   Hello, I tried all these commands and still doesn’t work…

   rmmod ath9k
   rmmod ath9k_common
   rmmod ath9k_hw
   rmmod ath
   rmmod mac80211
   rmmod cfg80211
   rfkill block wifi
   modprobe ath9k
   rfkill unblock all
   ifconfig wlan0 up…. it said SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132.
   rfkill list…… Hardware: yes Software: no
   What can I do now?
   It’s started when I stop my usb drive…

9. chuck // Oct 15, 2011 at 4:49 pm

   Problem:

   #rfkill list

   0 phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: yes

   After put my laptop apart and switch out a different wireless card, it still didn’t work. I looked around and found that I accident turned off the wifi switch on the side even though the wifi light is on. There are two ways to turn the hardware wifi on and off. One is through the Fn+F2 on ASUS laptop. The other switch is on the left side of the laptop on ASUS laptop.

   I type command:

   rfkill list

   0 phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no
   ________________________________________________

   rfkill list

   0 phy0: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: yes
   Hard blocked: no

   Just follow the top commands and you’ll be fine.
   rmmod ath9k
   rmmod ath9k_common
   rmmod ath9k_hw
   rmmod ath
   rmmod mac80211
   rmmod cfg80211
   rfkill block wifi
   modprobe ath9k
   rfkill unblock all
   ifconfig wlan0 up or ifconfig wlan1 up

   Now everything is working normally again. :)))

10. Sacha Chua // Oct 16, 2011 at 10:18 am

    I’m glad you sorted that all out! =D Thanks for sharing your hints and tips.

11. kevin nguyen // Dec 28, 2011 at 1:21 pm

    hi all
    I get the same problem as chuck, but i use backtrack 5 in usb, as i know, using portable backtrack can use wireless card, i don’t need to buy usb wireless, when i tried to up wlan 0, i always get error
    siocsifflags: unknow error 132. please help me to fix this problem