Realtek RTL8723AE wifi down/blocked

[sjgold85]

My Realtek wifi card is down, I have spent hours trying to figure out why.... Bluetooth on the same card is OK though. Any help would be much appreciated!

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stephen@debbie04gb125:~$ inxi -Fxxxz && rfkill list && iwconfig && mokutil --sb-state
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System: Host: debbie04gb125 Kernel: 4.19.0-16-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.8.6
wm: muffin 4.8.1 dm: LightDM 1.26.0 Distro: LMDE 4 Debbie base: Debian 10.2 buster
Machine: Type: Laptop Mobo: GIGABYTE model: MMLP5AP-00 v: 1.x serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F5
date: 02/19/2014
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-4200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Haswell rev: 1 L2 cache: 3072 KiB
flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx bogomips: 18358
Speed: 798 MHz min/max: 800/2600 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 798 2: 798 3: 798 4: 798
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT Integrated Graphics vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0
chip ID: 8086:0a16
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Mobile v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes
Audio: Device-1: Intel Haswell-ULT HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0
chip ID: 8086:0a0c
Device-2: Intel 8 Series HD Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0
chip ID: 8086:9c20
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.0-16-amd64
Network: Device-1: Realtek RTL8723AE PCIe Wireless Network Adapter vendor: AzureWave driver: rtl8723ae v: kernel port: e000
bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8723
IF: wlp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel
port: d000 bus ID: 03:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: Local Storage: total: 111.79 GiB used: 59.24 GiB (53.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 EVO 120GB mSATA size: 111.79 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s serial: <filter>
rev: 3B6Q scheme: GPT
Partition: ID-1: / size: 101.28 GiB used: 59.19 GiB (58.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3
ID-2: swap-1 size: 8.10 GiB used: 43.0 MiB (0.5%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 48.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info: Processes: 193 Uptime: 12h 55m Memory: 7.71 GiB used: 3.40 GiB (44.2%) Init: systemd v: 241 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.32
0: hci0: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: no
enp3s0 no wireless extensions.

wlp2s0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on

lo no wireless extensions.

SecureBoot disabled
Platform is in Setup Mode

[sleeper12]

Try:

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 rfkill unblock all 

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 sudo sed -i 's/3/2/' /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf 

Reboot