HP dv5 Wireless Card No Longer Detected

[wes0]

After suspending to RAM and waking the computer back up, my wireless card is no longer detected. I am running LMDE with all the latest updates. I saw there was a breakage for some wireless cards with a recent update (related to the package dnet-common). I do not have that package installed, so I am not affected by the break.

This is not the first time this has happened, but usually things would start working again. However, this time I decided to replace the wireless card with a spare as well, because I thought my card might be dying. This new card does not work either.

My computer model is an HP dv5z-1000 CTO. I have the latest BIOS drivers (which are supposed to solve an issue like this). There is no switch for the wireless in the BIOS. The wireless switch on the computer is on. Wired connection works.

Here are two commands that I know are usually helpful when troubleshooting this. Any thoughts anyone on what could be the problem? Thanks!

lspci

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780/RS880 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:04.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 0)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3a)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 IDE Controller
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Miscellaneous Control
00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 11h Processor Link Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
01:05.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RS780 Azalia controller
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)

sudo iwconfig

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lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

[wes0]

Even though I had already changed wireless cards, I tried to "reseat" the current one today just to see if that would help. It didn't.

[thermodynamics4]

Even though I had already changed wireless cards, I tried to "reseat" the current one today just to see if that would help. It didn't.

Hello, the problem is not on the card or in LMDE, the problem is the motherboard of your lap. It's a well known issue with dv5 and dv6000, including tx1000 all the series... stops working the wireless and then the video if it has nvidia on it...

Do you have the same problems with a usb card?