I've recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS in my ASUS D550CA, and so far things have gone great.
The only problem I've got is the Wi-Fi. It doesn't work.
I've got an Qualcomm Atheros AR9485. I've tried installing the drivers, but the sytem says it doesn't find any.
So I started looking around this forum for solutions.
I've read every single post from this forum about my Wi-Fi network adapter, and I've found nothing that solves my problem.
Let me give you some info about my configuration.
Disclaimer: my configuration is in spanish, so if you don't understand something you can either use Google translate, or use your imagination. :D
When I run $ sudo lshw -C network this is what I get:
*-network DEACTIVATED
descripción: Interfaz inalámbrica
producto: AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter
fabricante: Qualcomm Atheros
id físico: 0
información del bus: pci@0000:02:00.0
nombre lógico: wlan0
versión: 01
serie: 28:e3:47:5c:5d:3f
anchura: 64 bits
reloj: 33MHz
capacidades: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
configuración: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=3.13.0-34-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
recursos: irq:17 memoria:f7d00000-f7d7ffff memoria:f7d80000-f7d8ffff
*-network
descripción: Ethernet interface
producto: RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
fabricante: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
id físico: 0.2
información del bus: pci@0000:03:00.2
nombre lógico: eth0
versión: 06
serie: e0:3f:49:ce:57:49
tamaño: 100Mbit/s
capacidad: 100Mbit/s
anchura: 64 bits
reloj: 33MHz
capacidades: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuración: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8402-1_0.0.1 10/26/11 ip=181.165.245.39 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
recursos: irq:41 ioport:e000(size=256) memoria:f0004000-f0004fff memoria:f0000000-f0003fff
At the beginning, you'll see that it says "*-network DEACTIVATED" (or at least that's what I translated), is that something bad?
Then, when I run ipconfig this is what I get:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet direcciónHW e0:3f:49:ce:57:49
Direc. inet:181.165.245.39 Difus.:181.165.245.255 Másc:255.255.255.0
Dirección inet6: fe80::e23f:49ff:fece:5749/64 Alcance:Enlace
ACTIVO DIFUSIÓN FUNCIONANDO MULTICAST MTU:1500 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:221199 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:62025 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:1000
Bytes RX:124409589 (124.4 MB) TX bytes:7471899 (7.4 MB)
lo Link encap:Bucle local
Direc. inet:127.0.0.1 Másc:255.0.0.0
Dirección inet6: ::1/128 Alcance:Anfitrión
ACTIVO BUCLE FUNCIONANDO MTU:65536 Métrica:1
Paquetes RX:2977 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 frame:0
Paquetes TX:2977 errores:0 perdidos:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
colisiones:0 long.colaTX:0
Bytes RX:397158 (397.1 KB) TX bytes:397158 (397.1 KB)
When I put iwconfig:
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Finally, when I put sudo rfkill list all, I got:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
1: asus-wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
2: asus-bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
I hope anyone can help me solve this, I've searched a lot and found no solution.
Thanks a lot.