broken wifi connection

[rhumdiplomatico]

Hello
After three days of research I ask you for help please

suddenly the wifi does not work on my mint 18.4
while it worked automatically without problems for months.

The wifi continues to work well under Windows 10!

I tried several live distro and it's the same (xubuntu, dfdebian, manjaro, fedora)
wired ethernet works but not wifi except under win ??

I installed version 19 instead of 18.4 without formatting my 'Home' and
the wifi still does not work apart under win again ...

it is a HP Pavilion dm1 4433-sf pc
and here is below a balance sheet where we can see the
hard part of wifi card wlo1 in state down?
and all the way down the hard blocked yes?


jice@hooq7 ~ $ inxi -Nn
Network: Card-1: Ralink RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
IF: wlo1 state: down mac: 1c:3e:84:19:e6:ed
Card-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver: r8169
IF: eno1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: 74:46:a0:84:ff:9f
jice@hooq7 ~ $ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: yes
Hard blocked: yes
jice@hooq7 ~ $ rfkill unblock all
jice@hooq7 ~ $ rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

I do not know what to do ?

Return on windows ?????????

[thx-1138]

suddenly the wifi does not work on my mint 18.4 while it worked automatically without problems for months.
....................................
I tried several live distro and it's the same (xubuntu, dfdebian, manjaro, fedora)
wired ethernet works but not wifi except under win ??

...can you try going into your BIOS and see if there's any setting for enabling / resetting Wi-Fi?
If yes, you still might need to rfkill unblock all afterwards.
The fact that it 'worked' previously but now does not...across multiple distros, is surely weird...

I'm not the guy to guide you through this in a straightforward manner, but for gurus to possibly troubleshoot such,
do post the output from lsmod & lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net ...

[rhumdiplomatico]

Thank you for these linux commands that I do not know
but that I can not exploit for lack of knowledge

Quickly a three G please : Good Guy Guru

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jice@hooq7 ~ $ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8               16384  0
isofs                  45056  0
nls_iso8859_1          16384  1
arc4                   16384  2
kvm_amd                86016  0
snd_hda_codec_idt      57344  1
snd_hda_codec_generic    73728  1 snd_hda_codec_idt
kvm                   598016  1 kvm_amd
snd_hda_codec_hdmi     49152  1
rt2800pci              16384  0
snd_hda_intel          40960  4
rt2800mmio             16384  1 rt2800pci
rt2800lib             114688  2 rt2800mmio,rt2800pci
snd_hda_codec         126976  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hda_core           81920  5 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic
snd_hwdep              20480  1 snd_hda_codec
rt2x00pci              16384  1 rt2800pci
rt2x00mmio             16384  2 rt2800mmio,rt2800pci
rt2x00lib              53248  5 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2800mmio,rt2x00mmio,rt2800pci
snd_pcm                98304  4 snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_core,snd_hda_codec_hdmi
uvcvideo               86016  0
videobuf2_vmalloc      16384  1 uvcvideo
mac80211              778240  3 rt2800lib,rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
irqbypass              16384  1 kvm
videobuf2_memops       16384  1 videobuf2_vmalloc
videobuf2_v4l2         24576  1 uvcvideo
videobuf2_core         40960  2 uvcvideo,videobuf2_v4l2
snd_seq_midi           16384  0
snd_seq_midi_event     16384  1 snd_seq_midi
videodev              184320  3 uvcvideo,videobuf2_core,videobuf2_v4l2
snd_rawmidi            32768  1 snd_seq_midi
media                  40960  2 uvcvideo,videodev
joydev                 24576  0
cfg80211              622592  2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
input_leds             16384  0
snd_seq                65536  2 snd_seq_midi_event,snd_seq_midi
serio_raw              16384  0
hp_wmi                 16384  0
sparse_keymap          16384  1 hp_wmi
wmi_bmof               16384  0
snd_seq_device         16384  3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd_timer              32768  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
eeprom_93cx6           16384  1 rt2800pci
k10temp                16384  0
shpchp                 36864  0
snd                    81920  19 snd_hda_intel,snd_hwdep,snd_seq,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_codec_idt,snd_timer,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm
soundcore              16384  1 snd
hp_accel               28672  0
lis3lv02d              20480  1 hp_accel
input_polldev          16384  1 lis3lv02d
hp_wireless            16384  0
mac_hid                16384  0
sch_fq_codel           20480  2
parport_pc             36864  0
ppdev                  20480  0
lp                     20480  0
parport                49152  3 lp,parport_pc,ppdev
ip_tables              28672  0
x_tables               40960  1 ip_tables
autofs4                40960  2
btrfs                1126400  0
xor                    24576  1 btrfs
zstd_compress         163840  1 btrfs
raid6_pq              114688  1 btrfs
dm_mirror              24576  0
dm_region_hash         20480  1 dm_mirror
dm_log                 20480  2 dm_mirror,dm_region_hash
radeon               1470464  3
i2c_algo_bit           16384  1 radeon
psmouse               147456  0
ttm                   106496  1 radeon
drm_kms_helper        172032  1 radeon
r8169                  86016  0
syscopyarea            16384  1 drm_kms_helper
sysfillrect            16384  1 drm_kms_helper
sysimgblt              16384  1 drm_kms_helper
ums_realtek            20480  0
mii                    16384  1 r8169
fb_sys_fops            16384  1 drm_kms_helper
i2c_piix4              24576  0
uas                    24576  0
drm                   401408  6 radeon,ttm,drm_kms_helper
usb_storage            69632  2 uas,ums_realtek
ahci                   36864  4
libahci                32768  1 ahci
wmi                    24576  2 wmi_bmof,hp_wmi
video                  45056  0

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jice@hooq7 ~ $  lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 net
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3290]
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter [103c:18ec]
	Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci
	Kernel modules: rt2800pci
--
06:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [10ec:8168] (rev 06)
	Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller [103c:18d4]
	Kernel driver in use: r8169
	Kernel modules: r8169
jice@hooq7 ~ $

[Laurent85]

Try this :

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sudo modprobe -r hp_wireless

[rhumdiplomatico]

the command does not return anything

thank you


jice@hooq7 ~ $ sudo modprobe -r hp_wireless
[sudo] Mot de passe de jice :
jice@hooq7 ~ $ sudo modprobe -r hp_wireless

jice@hooq7 ~ $ sudo modprobe -r wireless
modprobe: FATAL: Module wireless not found.
jice@hooq7 ~ $

[Laurent85]

the command does not return anything

The command unloaded the module, check the rfkill command output then.

[rhumdiplomatico]

jice@hooq7 ~ $ rfkill -r
ID TYPE DEVICE SOFT HARD
0 wlan phy0 unblocked blocked

jice@hooq7 ~ $ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

jice@hooq7 ~ $ rfkill unblock wlan

jice@hooq7 ~ $ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

[JeremyB]

Is there a button or switch on it to enabled/disable wifi?

[rhumdiplomatico]

It's f12 exclusively on windows

it is inoperative on linux, even when the wifi was running on linux.
By cons it works well on windows!
I rebooted the pc from win to linux with this button turned on (white) or off (orange) but nothing happens.
Anyway it was not used on linux and was always orange when the wifi worked!
And the HP BIOS has no settings for network cards ??

[JeremyB]

You might have to reset BIOS to defaults and see if the hard block gets cleared