I have been installing different variants of Ubuntu over the last couple of days. I have installed linux mint, lubuntu, kubuntu, xubuntu, ES luma. The following behavior is present in all of them.
Wifi works while in live usb, but stops working once I boot from Hard disk. I have no idea why.
I have gone over so many solutions online that I don't know where to start. **
The following si the resuult of some of the commands that i ran
Output of sudo rfkill list
waly@waly-Ideapad-Z570:~$ sudo rfkill list
[sudo] password for waly:
0: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
5: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
waly@waly-Ideapad-Z570:~$
Output of sudo ifconfig
waly@waly-Ideapad-Z570:~$ sudo ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr f0:de:f1:a1:84:4d
inet addr:192.168.1.106 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::f2de:f1ff:fea1:844d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:40557 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34600 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:57457240 (57.4 MB) TX bytes:2683630 (2.6 MB)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:745 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:745 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:68224 (68.2 KB) TX bytes:68224 (68.2 KB)
Output of sudo lshw -C network
waly@waly-Ideapad-Z570:~$ sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Wireless-N 1000 [Condor Peak]
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 74:e5:0b:72:bb:66
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.11.0-15-generic firmware=39.31.5.1 build 35138 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:45 memory:f1500000-f1501fff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: f0:de:f1:a1:84:4d
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.1.106 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:42 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:f1404000-f1404fff memory:f1400000-f1403fff
sudo modprobe iwlwifi
Output of dmesg | grep iwl
waly@waly-Ideapad-Z570:~$ sudo modprobe iwlwifi
waly@waly-Ideapad-Z570:~$ dmesg | grep iwl
[ 12.879198] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS doesn't have ASPM control
[ 12.879324] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: irq 45 for MSI/MSI-X
[ 13.039566] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 39.31.5.1 build 35138 op_mode iwldvm
[ 13.169710] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG disabled
[ 13.169711] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUGFS enabled
[ 13.169712] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEVICE_TRACING enabled
[ 13.169713] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: CONFIG_IWLWIFI_P2P disabled
[ 13.169714] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Centrino(R) Wireless-N 1000 BGN, REV=0x6C
[ 13.169807] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: L1 Enabled; Disabling L0S
[ 13.176934] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: RF_KILL bit toggled to disable radio.
[ 13.246301] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'
waly@waly-Ideapad-Z570:~$
The following is what I have tried and it doesn't work
- It shows that it is hard blocked but it is not. The button on my laptop is to the right, where it should be, and bluetooth is on. I toggle it back and forth but it only keeps turning bluetooth on and off. I tried it on the Live USB and it was working fine. It was turning the wifi on and off.
- I have gone to bios and reset bios to make sure that my laptop would reset the switch, that didn't work
I am ready to do what ever it takes to fix this, but I currently have got no idea what else to do.
Edit:
lsmod for harddisk install
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6748161/
Now strangely it is not working in live USB either :S. here is the lsmod (Read Edit2 below)
I tried both ubuntu 13.10 live cd and linux mint 16 cinnamon live usb, they are both now not working.
sudo rfkill list shows that it is being hard blocked. I am going crazy now. I am about to give up and load ****ing windows back
In case anyone doubted that the bios has wireless or wifi disabled. Here is a pic
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Edit2:
OK I installed windows xp and then updated my bios as there was an update for it. I am currently booting ubuntu off a live usb and wifi is working fine. I got the lsmod now.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/6764089/
Wish me luck, I am going to install ubuntu and hopefully its gonne work. Keeping my fingers crossed.
