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Hello, thank you for all your help, and sorry for not getting back earlier but the laptop was at service.
It was a physical fault of the motherboard, and that had to be fixed.
Thanks for all you...

This is the report now :-)


0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
3: brcmwl-0:...

It shows:

0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no

Still no wireless. Only the...

Hi , no changes unfortunately, after doing all the steps you suggested-
Thanks again.

Hello
in addition what I have just realized that when I boot my laptop, the wireless indicator on the front of the keyboard is lit up, means active and at the moment Linux is starting than the...

Hi,

nothing really changed with the code:
After the first rfkill list I pressed FN/F5 and so the siflock was removed. But you can see the hardblock is still there.
However if you see the...

Hello ,

the previous code did not help. I pushed than FN/F5 and that only soft locked theWIFI but did not remove hard lock.

$ rfkill list
0: brcmwl-0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
...

Hi,

it seems I am hopeless. I did all steps, I reset BIOS, I checked there under settings: Wireless is enabled. I tried the FN/F5 game as well during boot. Nothing.
I really think that the...

Hi

attached is the file requested.

the commands did not change the 'hard locked' part:

tyatyi@tyatyi-Lenovo ~ $ sudo modprobe -r ideapad-laptop
tyatyi@tyatyi-Lenovo ~ $ sudo rfkill unblock...

Hi ,

the fn/F5 combination just influenced the 'soft blocked' part and did not change the 'hard blocked'

tyatyi@tyatyi-Lenovo ~ $ rfkill list all
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft...

Hello, thank you, I tried the code, unfortunately WIFI still shows unavailable/disabled.

tyatyi@tyatyi-Lenovo ~ $ sudo modprobe -rvf bcma
[sudo] password for tyatyi:
Sorry, try again.
[sudo]...

Hello,
after removal and reboot, the wireless is still disabled, no reaction on anything.
This is the results of the code:

tyatyi@tyatyi-Lenovo ~ $ lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 net
05:00.0...

Thank you I attached the file. I appreciate your help

hello!! thank you.

ndiswrapper is removed as I am currently on a brand new installation of Mint.

I tried the code what suggested on the attached link:, and this was returned

0: ideapad_wlan:...

Hello dear All,

I am absolutely lost and I would like to ask advise. After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 my Broadcom WIFI driver stopped working.
I tried ndiswrapper with a windows driver, I also...