Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-06 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 6. August 2015, 06:47:52 schrieb Beco: Hi Beco, is wlan0 existent? Try ifconfig -a If yes, try wicd instead of network manager. FYI I had trouble with my network devices with kernel 4.0, but reverting to 3.16 did the trick. Also see, if the correct kernel module for your card is

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-06 Thread Beco
> > On 6 August 2015 at 02:28, Beco wrote: > Earlier today I picked at BIOS to see if there was something there I could > change. The only reference to network there is to select where to boot from. > > But I'll double check to be sure. Ok, I got some results. I found on BIOS an option to dis

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread Beco
On 6 August 2015 at 01:54, wrote: > > i forgot to ask an important question, although i'm sure you would have > mentioned it. you can't boot into Windows on this machine, right ? > > No windows near me in any machine. :) > Sure seems like a hardware failure. > I'm starting to think that als

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread briand
On Thu, 6 Aug 2015 01:29:50 -0300 Beco wrote: > Hi Brian, > > Thanks for trying to make sense of this mess. > > This notebook has onboard wifi, no "physical" switch, but a combination of > keys FN+F2 that would supposedly turn it on or off. This combination never > worked since day one of all o

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread Beco
On 6 August 2015 at 01:04, wrote: > On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 23:23:35 -0300 > Beco wrote: > > > Hi guys, > > > > Something odd happened today, on my first clean boot of the day. > > (notebook DELL vostro v131) > > > > Simply, no wlan0 at all. > > > > there is often a hardware switch which disables WLA

Re: wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread briand
On Wed, 5 Aug 2015 23:23:35 -0300 Beco wrote: > Hi guys, > > Something odd happened today, on my first clean boot of the day. > (notebook DELL vostro v131) > > Simply, no wlan0 at all. > there is often a hardware switch which disables WLAN. Is it possible that it's been turned off ? lspci s

wlan disappeared

2015-08-05 Thread Beco
Hi guys, Something odd happened today, on my first clean boot of the day. (notebook DELL vostro v131) Simply, no wlan0 at all. $ ifconfig -a #shows only eth0 and lo. $ lspci #shows no wifi at all (should be a Intel Centrino Wireless-N 1030 BGN Rev=0xB0) $ lshw -C Network #shows only eth0 $ rfkil