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Lenovo make a large group of PC related products including desktops and more portable items such as Thinkpads and Ideapads as well as servers and display items.

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Lenovo ideapad 110 - Cannot Detect Wireless Network Adapter [closed]

I've tried lshw and lspci, but I cannot detect the wireless network adapter in this laptop running Ubuntu 16.04.5: Any suggestions?
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Installing Ubuntu on Miix320

Can some one help me how to install Ubuntu on Lenovo Miix 320. Windows is struggling to support and its keeps getting hung. Ubuntu definetely fits well in this kind of situation and need someone's ...
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Weak wifi signal Lenovo Yoga 500

I have been using a Lenovo Yoga 500 laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 for over a year and, for some unknown reason, I recently started experiencing problems with my wifi connection. It may be related to some ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3rd Gen - No W-Fi Adapter Found

I have been using my Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon 3rd Gen with no problem for close to a year now with no problem, until now. Booting up this afternoon, it cannot connect to a network via Wi-Fi. Looking ...
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Lenovo touchpad lag/delay on first finger movement

I’ve got a brand new Lenovo E490 and installed Ubuntu 18.10 besides Win10. While in Windows the touchpad is working precisely, in Ubuntu it does not react at the first several “pixels” when I start ...
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Monitor display settings on Lenovo Ideapad 330 15ICH

The monitor on a fresh Ubuntu 18.10 installation shows washed out colors and a weird color tint. When compared to other laptops the difference is very noticeable. Out of the box I can only adjust ...
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Not able turn on the wifi on Lenovo Y520

I have recently installed Ubuntu on a Lenovo Y520. I'm not able to turn on the wifi. I heard that there are some issues with WiFi in Ubuntu 17.04 but they all are related to connectivity. I wonder ...
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Overheating in Kubuntu 18.04 - Lenovo Ideapad 330-15ICH

I installed Kubuntu 18.04 in a new laptop (Lenovo Ideapad 330). I installed Kubuntu (along with the default Windows 10 installation) because, after a lot of tries with Ubuntu 18.04, it was not ...
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UEFI or Legacy? Which is advised and why?

While I know some facts about UEFI and Legacy and basic differences between them, like UEFI allowing for faster booting (I've checked this question already, but it doesn't answer mine), I have a bit ...
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Built in 4G modem of Thinkpad X1 carbon (5th gen) is not deteceted in ubuntu 16.04

I am having a Thinkpad X1 carbon (5th gen) laptop with in build 4G mobile broad band modem. Even though the socket for the SIM card is available on the laptop, mmcli -L does not detect it. Is there ...
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Lenovo C930 WiFi card not recognized. Fix? [duplicate]

I just installed Ubuntu 18.10 on my Lenovo C930. It doesn’t recognize its WiFi card in Ubuntu. Fix was identified as: sudo modprobe -r ideapad-laptop But this needs to be done every time I boot ...
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No grub menu after Ubuntu 16.04 installation alongside W10

I received a Lenovo T460 laptop with W10 pre-installed. I installed Ubuntu16.04 using an USB pendrive. I deactivate the fast boot and select Bios both UEFI and Legacy for the secure boot. But after ...
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Sudden high CPU usage followed by Input/Output error

First a little bit of information about my system: OS: Ubuntu 18.04 with encryption while installing DE: i3wm (probably doesn't have to with this, because the same problem appears in Gnome) ...
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Installing Ubuntu on lenovo 130s / trouble eMMC

I have trouble installing ubuntu 18.04 on a lenovo ideapad 130s. When the LiveUSB (created by rufus) is booting it takes forever to boot the GUI {around 50 min!} with cqhci timout for tag 4 and tag ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad E480 - Bluetooth not working in Ubuntu 18.04

I have recently purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad E480 laptop, I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it, everything is working fine except its not able to switch on the Bluetooth. Please help. I followed this ...
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Touchpad doesnt work until restart. Lenovo ideapad Yoga

Well, at first it works perfect, but then it stopped. I can use a mouse, but my touchpad doesn't work. if I restart the computer then the touchpad works completely normal, but when I shutdown computer ...
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Problems installing Ubuntu 18.04 on Lenovo V145-15AST

EDIT: Some new information: the boot process is very slow when the PC is plugged in (electrically) but not when it is running on the battery... EDIT: Just to make it clear, I'm only asking about one ...
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unreliable touchpad after installation of 18.04 on Lenovo Flex 11 laptop

Still looking for clues. My wife's son installed Ubuntu 18.04 on a Lenovo Flex 11 laptop, after wiping windows. The computer seemed to work well and I used the touchpad and even the touch screen ...
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How can I remove options from bios boot menu

I was using openSUSE and Manjaro before I start using Ubuntu (kubuntu). Now there's boot options such as windows boot manager, Manjaro, debian, etc. How can I delete those options from my Lenovo ...
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Lenovo P1/X1Extreme "official" support?

Lenovo claims that they have received Canonical's Ubuntu certification (whatever that means) for the P1 and the X1 Extreme Thinkpads. Is there some secret location to get the right installation ...
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Unable to modify BIOS. Unable to boot USB

I used to have dual boot system: Ubuntu and Windows. Recently, something wrong happend to my Ubuntu. I tried to fixed, but nothing helped. I tried to boot usb with Ubuntu, but turns out that I have ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad E480 - No Wifi Adaptor Found in Ubuntu 18.04

I have recently a purchased Lenovo Thinkpad E480 laptop, I have installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it, everything is working fine except am not able to connect to network via WiFi. Please help. I followed ...
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Lenovo ideapad 720 - ubuntu 18.04 does not recognize fingerprint-reader

I installed a fresh 18.04 on my new laptop and it does not recognize the fingerprint-reader.. I tried to install fingerprint-gui as well as fprint, they both are not able to recognize the reader.. ...
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Logitech R400 on Lenovo T440s, Ubuntu 14.04 not properly recognized

I would like to use a Logitech R400 pointer with my Lenovo T440s running on Ubuntu 14.04 64bit. There is a problem with the keys so that forward and backward buttons result in jumping at 1st or last ...
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ThinkPad E470 Card Reader not working

I'm having problems with my SD card reader. I own a Lenovo ThinkPad E470 with Ubuntu 16.04 (fully updated). When inserting the SD card nothing happens, only dmesg gives me these lines: [ 576.659543] ...
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system will poweroff automatically in Lenovo ideapad Ubuntu

I've a new Lenovo Ideapad 330 laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 installed, the System will automatically turned off while working without any specific alerts. Is there any possible way to turn the power ...
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Lenovo u310 will not charge when turned on

I've looked around and had several friends have a look but we cannot figure this out. I am running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Lenovo U310. The laptop charges fine when the laptop is off but it will not charge ...
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Touchpad does not work for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with Lenovo Legion Y730

I recently bought this laptop. Everything work perfect with windows, but when I install Ubuntu 16.04, the touchpad does not work. External mouse works great. I tried everything I could online, nothing ...
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Laptop doesn't suspend properly on closing lid

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my Lenovo G50 and everything is going fine except that I can't close the lid of my laptop without needing to reboot afterwards. When I close the lid (or if I run pm-...
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Ubuntu 18.04 rebooting my Lenovo Yoga 920

I am running Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS on a Lenovo Yoga 920. Things are fine, except that (quite regularly?) when coming back to my laptop, I discover that it has rebooted. I am assuming that it happens now ...
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Live USB doesnt boot up! (Error installing Ubuntu on Lenovo Thinkpad E580)

Im new in this forum! i just bought a Thinkpad E580 windows on it and im trying to install Linux(Ubuntu) alongside windows 10. I have installed Ubuntu earlier on other laptops! Here i get an Error ...
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Extremely slow graphical desktop startup process Ubuntu 18.10

I have experienced a stubborn issue after upgrading my Ubuntu from 18.04 to 18.10. Every time I would like to login into my system via lightdm the login process takes a lot of time (more than 2 ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad 25 (retro) webcam doesn't work with Ubuntu 16.04

The camera on my thinkpad just displays a very static-y image. I could post screenshots if that would help. Reaching out to Lenovo, it seems that particular Thinkpad doesn't support Ubuntu officially. ...
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How to enable keyboard backlight for Ubuntu 18.04 OS on Lenovo Thinkpad L480 laptop

I have tried this option sudo gedit /etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.UPower.conf and change setting <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.UPower.KbdBacklight" send_interface=...
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Synaptics touchpad detected but unresponsive - Ubuntu 18.04.1, Lenovo Yoga 11e

Caveat: I'm far from an advanced user. I like Ubuntu for web development and casual use, and generally try to figure things out as the need arises. After running a routine update (apt update, apt ...
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Lenovo touchpad is unstable in Ubuntu 18

My Lenovo IdeaPad 320 touchpad is unstable; it jumps very often like the sensitive was high. I already set the sensitivity to the minimum value but the instability continues. renan@renan-cunha-...
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Booting Problem in Ubuntu 16.04

I installed ubuntu 17 using usb in my pc First. Now I installed ubuntu 16.04 in my pc. The problem is when I tried to start the system, my loading screen starts with ubuntu 17 and then redirect to ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Hangs/Freezes on LENOVO ideapad 330

I bought a new laptop, with the following specifications: -LENOVO ideapad 330-15ICH -Processor: Intel Core i5-8300H CPU @ 2.30GHz 2.30GHz -RAM Installed: 8 GB (7.88 GB usable) -Graph: NVIDIA GeForce ...
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Lenovo Y520 Freeze when updating

I read so many posts in this forum but no problem is similar to mine. I installed Ubuntu 18.04 on my Lenovo Legion Y520, I put it in the SSD while the HDD keeps Windows 10. Whenever I launch Ubuntu it ...
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Lenovo T460 USB support

I play with a T460 laptop and I suspect something is wrong with USB. lsusb shows me: Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 04f2:b52c Chicony ...
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Microphone problem, Lenovo ideapad 720S-14IKB, Ubuntu 18.04

I have a Lenovo ideapad 720S-14IKB laptop with Ubuntu 18.04 and the built-in microphone does not seem to work. In Windows 10 (also installed on the same laptop, dual boot) the microphone works fine. ...
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Lenovo Ideapad 720s consuming a lot of power during suspend [18.04]

I have a new Lenovo Ideapad 720s (intel) running Ubuntu 18.04. Most everything works well, except it appears to be using an inordinately large amount of power while suspended. For example, power will ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 on a Lenovo Ideapad - Can't get it to recognize USB Keyboard

I have a Das Keyboard that was just gifted to me recently, and I'd like to use it on my Lenovo laptop. When I first plugged it in, it worked. Then I had to restart a couple days ago, and I haven't ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Adaptive Keyboard (Gen 2)

I own a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, and it has a touch sensitive adaptive keyboard and fingerprint sensor. The laptop came with Windows 8, and after I installed Windows 10, the adaptive keyboard ...
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Keyboard repeats key presses

When I type "fast" the key presses are repeated randomly. So for example "hello there!" becomes "helloo theere!". This happened back on Ubuntu with GNOME and KDE and recently I switched over to ...
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Lenovo-yoga 13 touchpad not working in Ubuntu 18.04

I tried the solution here sudo modprobe -r psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse proto=imps works to enable the touchpad during the current session. However, the permanent solution (create file ...
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screen shuts down when connecting to dock [duplicate]

I have a Lenovo T480s that I connect to my dock at work every day. Today all of a sudden my monitors remain black after I'm prompted for the encryption key for my disk. Usually, the login prompt ...
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Lenovo unstable and sudden power-downs on battery

On my Lenovo ideapad 100 which is about 2 years old, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. Everything is fine except that last week the system starts to power-off suddenly or to display a corrupted screen for ...
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How do I install Realtek rtl8821ce driver on Ubuntu 18.10? [duplicate]

I am running Ubuntu 18.10 on a new Lenovo IdeaPad 320-15IKB laptop, but the Wi-Fi is not supported. 03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8821CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless ...
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Microphone not working Lenovo C930

Please help me out. Microphone not working in my Lenovo Yoga C930. Tried quite of suggested solutions previously, but none look promising. I am using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

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