In Fedora 17, if you turn your WLAN off using the Gnome menu, you may “soft block” your device. The result is that you can’t activate it.

To solve, just install rfkill, an thendo the unblock command.

yum install rfkill

rfkill unblock all

You also can type “rfkill list” to see if your Fedora is blocking some device.

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