I recently installed Xubuntu on my laptop, dual booted with Windows.
Everything works perfectly on the Windows side, but Xubuntu for some reason either doesn't recognise or can't access my network card, so I can't connect to the wifi. I have updated the Kernel and Ubuntu itself, I have checked for driver updates for my network card and I couldn't find any (it's a Qualcomm Atheros AR9485WB-EG).
I know almost nothing about Linux and Ubuntu so I am clueless on how to solve this but I really need it to work as fast as possible so all help would be highly appreciated.
Edit:
lshw -c net
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 01
serial: 24:0a:64:cb:f1:7f
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.16.0-41-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:18 memory:f7900000-f797ffff memory:f7980000-f798ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: QCA8171 Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: bc:ee:7b:46:f6:ed
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm pciexpress msi msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=alx duplex=full ip=192.168.1.2 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:52 memory:f7800000-f783ffff ioport:d000(size=128)
uname -a
Linux XubuntoV2 3.16.0-41-generic #57~14.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jun 18 18:01:13 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
4: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no