[Solved] can't turn on wifi

Greetings. I have had wireless working for quite a while, uninstalled networkmanager and reinstalled but am having difficulty getting wireless working again. In particular, when I run
ip link set wlan0 up
I get back
RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted
Running
rfkill list
gives
6: phy1: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
8: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
Googling indicated some people get this error when their wireless switch has been turned off. Switching it on/off on the physical device seems to have no effect. Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong? Thanks.
Last edited by esquire70 (2014-12-11 17:57:23)

Try:
Rfkill unblock 6

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