[SOLVED] wi-fi forever disconnected? (I can't get it to stay not soft blocked...)

soullessbeta · 12-27-2015, 12:14 PM

I accidentally turned off wireless somehow while I was moving my laptop (I put random stuff on the keyboard to transport things, I realize my stupid mistake). My keyboard has an airplane mode button so I was guessing I might have accidentally hit that but hitting it again did nothing?? So I ran the command "sudo rfkill list all" and wireless was soft blocked so I was like okay, "sudo rfkill unblock all". That should work right? Wireless still wouldn t connect... :<
I check the list after unblocking it all and nothing is soft blocked or hard blocked. But if I restart the computer, it automatically goes to soft blocked again?????
Help please. I'm new to all of this.

ondoho · 12-27-2015, 03:23 PM

can you unblock it again until the next reboot?

please post output of

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iA5 net
uname -rv
cat /etc/*release*

soullessbeta · 12-27-2015, 10:52 PM

Thank you for your help, but I somehow fixed it. I clicked on a random checkbox (has no identification so I have no idea of its purpose) in my networks widget, and it fixed it?

Here's my output of the codes though:

01:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 (rev bb)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

4.2.0-22-generic #27-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 17 22:57:08 UTC 2015

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=15.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=wily
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 15.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="15.10 (Wily Werewolf)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 15.10"
VERSION_ID="15.10"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"

Much thanks for your help! :]

ardvark71 · 12-28-2015, 05:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by soullessbeta

Thank you for your help, but I somehow fixed it. I clicked on a random checkbox (has no identification so I have no idea of its purpose) in my networks widget, and it fixed it?

Well, that's one way of doing it!

But I'm glad you got it working. If you would, please mark this thread as "SOLVED" by clicking on "Thread Tools" directly above your initial post. Thanks!

Regards...