I am new to the forum and I hope that I don't violate any rules.
Two days ago I bought a new laptop (Lenovo E31-70 80KC) and directly installed ubuntu on it.
During the installation process I was asked to connect to a W-lan, I tried but it didn't work. It tried to connect then the screen freezed and I couldn't continue the installation process. After restarting the installation, the system was properly installed, but there were no W-Lan connections visible anylonger.
I can't even select the option. The option for wireless networks is just grey. And there stands that wireless networks are turned off. Usally I would just switch it on, but. Here is no switch at the laptop. It is just possible to use the key combination "Fn" + "F7". Unfortunately switching that combination has no effect.
Since two days I am searching through all threads and forums connected to the topic I can find. And I tried out almost everything but without success.
I updated my system on the latest version, i tried to reset my BIOS and what else i found, but it is always the same:
rfkill list 0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
I am really not a computer guy, but I guess, that it has something to do that the function keys are turned of somehow. So I tried to change it under the keybord settings, but I was just able to enable the keys "Fn2" (volume down) and "Fn3" (volume up). That was a little success. But I couldn't find any possibility to "turn on" the W-Lan button, because there is none such an option in the keybord menue to find. Of the whole "Fn"-keys only 3 are working now: "Fn2", "Fn3" and "Fn9" (Blackscreen).
So what should I do now? Thank you for any help, I am really frustrated.
Edition:
lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2
brings:
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 [8086:08b4] (rev 93)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless AC 3160 [8086:8270]
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A2
Welcome to askubuntu.F7
key alone change the result of:rfkill list all
? Is there any clue in the log?dmesg | grep iwl