I recently installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 16.04 on my sister's Dell Inspiron 3521. After installing I noticed that the WiFi adapter won't turn on. I could see a Enable WiFi
option on the tray icon but when I check that nothing happens. When I do an lspci
I see this:
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
I also checked in my BIOS to see if its disabled through that but I couldn't even find an option there to do that.
When I try rfkill list all
I see:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
I'm guessing this is the reason why its not working. How do I resolve this?