nm applet does not show any wireless options, no wlan0, or other shows up with ifconfig, Bios show wireless enable and led on, but when exit Bios led turns off and can't turn on wireless with toggle, only etho visible with any cmds
Wireless was working fine. I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 14.04 and it was still working fine. After logging on one day, all of my wireless seemed to disappear. I've searched and tried suggested fixes in forums (loading windows drivers via ndis, loaded backports, used synaptic package to try the b43 and firmware, tried switching on and off the wireless switch on the laptop, asked for help on "askubuntu", and much more. I've run all relative terminal cmds to try and find network controller, wlan0, but only etho shows up. I've checked my router and all is set properly (wife is able to connect wifi through her laptop). Strangely, in my Bios, the internal wireless is enabled and when I go into it, the wireless led lights up on the laptop. As soon as I leave the Bios, it turns off and I am unable to fn/toggle and switch the led on. I've used the rfkill list all, etc. and nothing is listed. lspci, lsusb and others list nothing wireless that I can see. I've tried stopping and starting network manager with success, but still nothing in the applet about wireless connections, or my network (or any others). Finally, I've reinstalled 13.10 and same thing. Then reinstalled 14.04 and tried all I could find through google and Ubuntu forums. Nothing has worked. I have now reinstalled 14.04 again and am at a complete loss. I would think, being a new install, it would load the appropriate drivers/
Note: I'm not very technical, but I don't see anything in lsmod either.
lucidrem@Raptor:~$ sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install hwinfo grep rfkill; sudo lshw -C network; rfkill list; sudo iwlist scan | egrep -i 'chan|ssid'; cat /etc/network/
[sudo] password for lucidrem:
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Package hwinfo is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
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E: Package 'hwinfo' has no installation candidate
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: f0:de:f1:71:62:57
size: 100Mbit/s
capacity: 100Mbit/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
resources: irq:41 ioport:
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
DISTRIB_
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:3975]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 5986:0292 Acer, Inc
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0bda:0139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5139 Card Reader Controller
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
RUNNING STATE WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running connected enabled enabled enabled disabled
H/W path Device Class Description
=======
/0 bus Torpedo
/0/0 memory 128KiB BIOS
/0/2b memory 6GiB System Memory
/0/2b/0 memory 2GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0
/0/2b/1 memory 4GiB SODIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MHz (0
/0/31 processor AMD A6-3400M APU with Radeon(tm) HD Grap
/0/31/32 memory 512KiB L1 cache
/0/31/33 memory 4MiB L2 cache
/0/100 bridge Family 12h Processor Root Complex
/0/100/1 display BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6520G]
/0/100/1.1 multimedia BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D
/0/100/4 bridge Family 12h Processor Root Port
/0/100/4/0 eth0 network RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ether
/0/100/11 storage FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
/0/100/12 bus FCH USB OHCI Controller
/0/100/12.2 bus FCH USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/13 bus FCH USB OHCI Controller
/0/100/13.2 bus FCH USB EHCI Controller
/0/100/14 bus FCH SMBus Controller
/0/100/14.2 multimedia FCH Azalia Controller
/0/100/14.3 bridge FCH LPC Bridge
/0/100/14.4 bridge FCH PCI Bridge
/0/101 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0
/0/102 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1
/0/103 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2
/0/104 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3
/0/105 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4
/0/106 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6
/0/107 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5
/0/108 bridge Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7
/0/1 scsi1 storage
/0/1/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DVDRAM GT33N
/0/2 scsi3 storage
/0/2/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 750GB WDC WD7500BPVT-2
/0/2/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 243MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/2/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 698GiB Extended partition
/0/2/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sda5 volume 698GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/3 scsi4 storage
/0/3/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk xD/SD/M.S.
/0/3/0.0.0/0 /dev/sdb disk
Linux Raptor 3.13.0-32-generic #56-Ubuntu SMP Mon Jul 7 11:32:12 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.000000] found SMP MP-table at [mem 0x000fa8b0-
[ 0.000000] No NUMA configuration found
[ 0.000000] No AGP bridge found
[ 0.133511] [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
[ 0.163961] ACPI: No dock devices found.
[ 0.178497] acpi PNP0A08:00: [Firmware Info]: MMCONFIG for domain 0000 [bus 00-3f] only partially covers this bridge
[ 0.193875] Found 1 acpi root devices
[ 0.196370] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
[ 0.196370] usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
[ 0.196370] usbcore: registered new device driver usb
[ 0.202160] Switched to clocksource hpet
[ 0.208679] pnp: PnP ACPI: found 9 devices
[ 0.928737] input: Lid Switch as /devices/
[ 0.928765] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
[ 0.955367] ehci-pci 0000:00:12.2: applying AMD SB700/SB800/
[ 0.964197] usb usb1: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 0.964201] usb usb1: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 0.964205] usb usb1: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.964207] usb usb1: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic ehci_hcd
[ 0.964212] usb usb1: SerialNumber: 0000:00:12.2
[ 0.964517] hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 0.965000] ehci-pci 0000:00:13.2: applying AMD SB700/SB800/
[ 0.976371] usb usb2: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0002
[ 0.976373] usb usb2: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 0.976375] usb usb2: Product: EHCI Host Controller
[ 0.976377] usb usb2: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic ehci_hcd
[ 0.976379] usb usb2: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.2
[ 0.976773] hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.036286] usb usb3: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
[ 1.036291] usb usb3: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.036294] usb usb3: Product: OHCI PCI host controller
[ 1.036296] usb usb3: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic ohci_hcd
[ 1.036297] usb usb3: SerialNumber: 0000:00:12.0
[ 1.036686] hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.096286] usb usb4: New USB device found, idVendor=1d6b, idProduct=0001
[ 1.096291] usb usb4: New USB device strings: Mfr=3, Product=2, SerialNumber=1
[ 1.096293] usb usb4: Product: OHCI PCI host controller
[ 1.096295] usb usb4: Manufacturer: Linux 3.13.0-32-generic ohci_hcd
[ 1.096297] usb usb4: SerialNumber: 0000:00:13.0
[ 1.096686] hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
[ 1.124276] Loaded X.509 cert 'Magrathea: Glacier signing key: 2f256a303498047
[ 1.133422] IMA: No TPM chip found, activating TPM-bypass!
[ 1.134375] BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 0 devices found
[ 1.225764] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: RTL8105e at 0xffffc90000c82000, f0:de:f1:71:62:57, XID 00a00000 IRQ 41
[ 1.289118] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device number 2 using ehci-pci
[ 1.421017] usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0bda, idProduct=0139
[ 1.421023] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[ 1.421025] usb 2-1: Product: USB2.0-CRW
[ 1.421027] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Generic
[ 1.421028] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 20100201396000000
[ 1.461094] [drm] Found smc ucode version: 0x00010d00
[ 1.532174] usb 2-3: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci-pci
[ 1.681195] usb 2-3: New USB device found, idVendor=5986, idProduct=0292
[ 1.681201] usb 2-3: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
[ 1.681204] usb 2-3: Product: Lenovo EasyCamera
[ 1.681207] usb 2-3: Manufacturer: Bison Corp.
[ 1.721975] Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 170x48
[ 34.884960] IPv6: ADDRCONF(
[ 35.192583] EXT4-fs (dm-1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro
[ 35.221686] lp: driver loaded but no devices found
[ 35.388430] input: HD-Audio Generic HDMI/DP,pcm=3 as /devices/
[ 35.429115] input: HD-Audio Generic Headphone as /devices/
[ 35.429530] input: HD-Audio Generic Mic as /devices/
[ 35.822093] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Lenovo EasyCamera (5986:0292)
[ 35.823517] usbcore: registered new interface driver rts5139
[ 35.825023] input: Lenovo EasyCamera as /devices/
[ 35.825145] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
[ 39.946965] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: link down
[ 39.946982] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: link down
[ 39.947024] IPv6: ADDRCONF(
[ 39.947514] IPv6: ADDRCONF(
[ 41.568887] r8169 0000:01:00.0 eth0: link up
[ 41.568904] IPv6: ADDRCONF(
Release Date: 05/26/2011
Serial services are supported (int 14h)
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 129925U
Serial Number: WB02458833WB010
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: Torpedo
Serial Number: WB02458833
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Serial Number: Chassis Serial Number Unknown
Manufacturer: Samsung
Serial Number: 944CE603
Manufacturer: Samsung
Serial Number: 67396C6E
Manufacturer: AMD
Serial Number: Not Specified
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
install snd-rawmidi /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install snd-rawmidi $CMDLINE_OPTS && { /sbin/modprobe --quiet --use-blacklist snd-seq-midi ; : ; }
# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
blacklist ath_pci
blacklist eth1394
# replaced by p54pci
blacklist prism54
# replaced by b43 and ssb.
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist uart6850
blacklist twl4030_wdt
# /etc/modprobe.
# iwlwifi will dyamically load either iwldvm or iwlmvm depending on the
# microcode file installed on the system. When removing iwlwifi, first
# remove the iwl?vm module and then iwlwifi.
remove iwlwifi \
(/sbin/lsmod | grep -o -e ^iwlmvm -e ^iwldvm -e ^iwlwifi | xargs /sbin/rmmod) \
&& /sbin/modprobe -r mac80211
[main]
NetworkingEnabl
WirelessEnabled
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
sudo: hwinfo: command not found
root 1135 0.0 0.1 356616 6952 ? Ssl 09:24 0:00 NetworkManager
root 1275 0.0 0.0 10232 3648 ? S 09:24 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -d -sf /usr/lib/
nobody 1377 0.0 0.0 35224 1504 ? S 09:24 0:00 /usr/sbin/dnsmasq --no-resolv --keep-
lucidrem 3324 0.0 0.0 13644 888 pts/24 S+ 09:39 0:00 egrep --color=auto wpa|icd|etwork
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
0.0.0.0 192.168.1.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
192.168.1.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 127.0.1.1
search attlocal.net
total 117171
2 drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 Jul 9 10:45 .
2 drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 Jul 9 10:43 ..
22 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1158016 May 2 17:30 abi-3.13.
26 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1162712 Jul 1 09:29 abi-3.13.
28 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1162712 Jul 7 05:30 abi-3.13.
21 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165510 May 2 17:30 config-
25 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165611 Jul 1 09:29 config-
14 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 165611 Jul 7 05:30 config-
22089 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Jul 9 10:45 grub
18 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29056772 Jul 7 09:11 initrd.
12 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29194227 Jul 7 09:12 initrd.
30 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29196990 Jul 9 10:45 initrd.
11 drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 4 09:25 lost+found
15 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176500 Mar 12 05:31 memtest86+.bin
16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178176 Mar 12 05:31 memtest86+.elf
17 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178680 Mar 12 05:31 memtest86+
23 -rw------- 1 root root 3372643 May 2 17:30 System.
24 -rw------- 1 root root 3381262 Jul 1 09:29 System.
13 -rw------- 1 root root 3381262 Jul 7 05:30 System.
20 -rw------- 1 root root 5776416 May 2 17:30 vmlinuz-
27 -rw------- 1 root root 5798144 Jul 1 09:29 vmlinuz-
19 -rw------- 1 root root 5798112 Jul 7 05:30 vmlinuz-
Support status summary of 'Raptor':
You have 1728 packages (94.9%) supported until May 2019 (5y)
You have 21 packages (1.2%) supported until February 2015 (9m)
You have 39 packages (2.1%) supported until May 2017 (3y)
You have 1 packages (0.1%) that can not/no-longer be downloaded
You have 32 packages (1.8%) that are unsupported
Run with --show-unsupported, --show-supported or --show-all to see more details
Module Size Used by
bnep 19624 2
rfcomm 69160 0
bluetooth 391196 10 bnep,rfcomm
uvcvideo 80885 0
videobuf2_vmalloc 13216 1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_memops 13362 1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_core 40664 1 uvcvideo
rts5139 335409 0
videodev 134688 2 uvcvideo,
acer_wmi 32522 0
snd_hda_
snd_seq_midi 13324 0
snd_seq_midi_event 14899 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_hda_codec_hdmi 46254 1
snd_rawmidi 30144 1 snd_seq_midi
kvm_amd 59987 0
snd_hda_intel 52355 5
kvm 451511 1 kvm_amd
snd_seq 61560 2 snd_seq_
snd_hda_codec 192906 3 snd_hda_
snd_hwdep 13602 1 snd_hda_codec
snd_pcm 102099 3 snd_hda_
joydev 17381 0
serio_raw 13462 0
k10temp 13126 0
snd_page_alloc 18710 2 snd_pcm,
snd_seq_device 14497 3 snd_seq,
snd_timer 29482 2 snd_pcm,snd_seq
i2c_piix4 22155 0
snd 69238 21 snd_hda_
soundcore 12680 1 snd
ideapad_laptop 18216 0
sparse_keymap 13948 2 acer_wmi,
parport_pc 32701 0
mac_hid 13205 0
ppdev 17671 0
lp 17759 0
parport 42348 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
xts 12914 1
gf128mul 14951 1 xts
dm_crypt 23177 1
radeon 1522422 3
i2c_algo_bit 13413 1 radeon
ttm 85115 1 radeon
ahci 25819 2
drm_kms_helper 53081 1 radeon
psmouse 106678 0
r8169 67581 0
drm 303102 5 ttm,drm_
mii 13934 1 r8169
libahci 32560 1 ahci
wmi 19177 1 acer_wmi
video 19476 1 acer_wmi
PC model/make: Lenovo IdeaPad Z575/1299
Ubuntu 14.04 is installed to the harddisk and running from harddisk install.
lucidrem@Raptor:~$ lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Complex [1022:1705]
00:01.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] BeaverCreek [Radeon HD 6520G] [1002:9647]
00:01.1 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] BeaverCreek HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 6500D and 6400G-6600G series] [1002:1714]
00:04.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h Processor Root Port [1022:1709]
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [AHCI mode] [1022:7804]
00:12.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
00:12.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB OHCI Controller [1022:7807] (rev 11)
00:13.2 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 11)
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:780b] (rev 13)
00:14.2 Audio device [0403]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH Azalia Controller [1022:780d] (rev 01)
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:780e] (rev 11)
00:14.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH PCI Bridge [1022:780f] (rev 40)
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 0 [1022:1700] (rev 43)
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 1 [1022:1701]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 2 [1022:1702]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 3 [1022:1703]
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 4 [1022:1704]
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 6 [1022:1718]
00:18.6 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 5 [1022:1716]
00:18.7 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 12h/14h Processor Function 7 [1022:1719]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 05)
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