My wifi and Bluetooth disappeared when I installed linux mint
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My wifi and Bluetooth disappeared when I installed linux mint
Hello! I'm a beginner using any Linux distribution, and I started by installing the Tara 19 mint on my dual-boot laptop with Windows. When I was still in the Live CD mode (USB I think, I do not remember pardon) everything was ok, but when the installation finished Wireless disappeared in both Mint and Windows. Help me please!
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Niketathakare88
Re: My wifi and Bluetooth disappeared when I installed linux mint
As you can see there are 4 items listed:
ideapad_wlan
ideapad_bluetooth
hcio: bluetooth
phy0: wireless_LAN
The ideal situation is for the soft blocked to be set to no and the hard blocked to be set to no for all of the options.If you have any soft blocked items you can try the following:
rfkill unblock all
Now try clicking the network icon again to see if you have wireless networks appearing.If this works you can edit the file /etc/rc.local and add the above line to it. This will then hopefully solve the issue on subsequent boots.The hard block generally means there is a hardware switch for turning on the option. For example the WiFi might be turned off because there is a button on your laptop that needs to be pressed to turn it on.Unfortunately this isn’t always the case and sometimes it is down to conflicting modules.In my case above the hard blocked items are caused by the ideapad_laptop module.To resolve my issue I entered the following into the terminal:
ideapad_wlan
ideapad_bluetooth
hcio: bluetooth
phy0: wireless_LAN
The ideal situation is for the soft blocked to be set to no and the hard blocked to be set to no for all of the options.If you have any soft blocked items you can try the following:
rfkill unblock all
Now try clicking the network icon again to see if you have wireless networks appearing.If this works you can edit the file /etc/rc.local and add the above line to it. This will then hopefully solve the issue on subsequent boots.The hard block generally means there is a hardware switch for turning on the option. For example the WiFi might be turned off because there is a button on your laptop that needs to be pressed to turn it on.Unfortunately this isn’t always the case and sometimes it is down to conflicting modules.In my case above the hard blocked items are caused by the ideapad_laptop module.To resolve my issue I entered the following into the terminal: