I am a new Ubuntu user so I have a lot of kinks to work through. I have seen a lot of amazing support on this thread, so I thought I give it a shot.
I am on a Lenovo IdeaPad S145, with Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS installed on a clean partition of my SATA HDD. I did not install alongside Windows, which is on my M.2 SSD.
I am currently experiencing a weird issue where there is no option available for connecting to wifi networks. When I select the drop down menu on the top right of the screen, I see options for wired connections, but nothing for wifi.
rfkill shows my wifi device. However, when I go to Wi-Fi in the settings menu, there are no wifi adapters found and running ifconfig returns an error.
(base) waleed@waleed-Laptop:~/backport-iwlwifi$ rfkill
ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD
0 wlan ideapad_wlan unblocked unblocked
1 bluetooth ideapad_bluetooth blocked unblocked
2 bluetooth hci0 blocked unblocked
(base) waleed@waleed-Laptop:~/backport-iwlwifi$ ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
I have tried the following to resolve the issue with no success:
- Updating with
sudo apt upgrade
- Ensuring the BiOS 'Secure Boot' setting is disabled (it was).
- Disabling Fast-Boot in the BiOS.
- Following the instructions suggested by chili555 in this post (No wifi option on Ubuntu (18.04 and 16.04)).
When I ran the sudo make
in the above article, it would run normally, but then hang at a certain point for over 5 minutes. I interrupted the task after 6 or so minutes of waiting, restarted the computer fully and then ran make clean
followed by make
and now the terminal hangs after the first line. I have currently been waiting for 20 minutes and my output is as seen below.
(base) waleed@waleed-Laptop:~/backport-iwlwifi$ sudo make
GEN /home/waleed/backport-iwlwifi/net/wireless/shipped-certs.c
My best guess is this is not working as it was written for Ubuntu 18.04, but I'm not sure if that's a valid assumption.
Not sure what my next step should be or if Windows might be locking the WiFi card somehow. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Edit: If I left any important information out, please let me know and I will provide it.
lspci -knn | grep Network
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