No wireless after 12.10 installation

[chili555]

root@RyanYoga:/home/ryan/Desktop/compat-drivers-2012-12-04# modprobe rtl8723ae
root@RyanYoga:/home/ryan/Desktop/compat-drivers-2012-12-04#

Loaded perfectly this time! Is your wireless working? Did you do the firmware part?

[karnival8]

I know! This is what happens every time I retry!
Appears to have worked, no wireless connection message, no found ssid's, nada.


Retrying firmware once again with wired conn.

[karnival8]

Reloaded the firmware

on iwconfig there is NO listing for lwan0. there is only lo and eth0 - "no wireless extensions"

that is after modprobe -r and then modprobe

[chili555]

Any interesting messages here?

dmesg | grep rtl

[karnival8]

if by interesting you mean nothing at all, just blank, then yes!

[chili555]

It certainly ought to show the result of loading the module; how about now?

sudo modprobe rtl8723ae
dmesg | grep rtl

[karnival8]

both return an empty result.
should i remove everything and do it all over again? did that a few times already, always ends up here.

[chili555]

both return an empty result.
should i remove everything and do it all over again? did that a few times already, always ends up here.

No. You built it perfectly before and there is no reason to rebuild it ... perfectly ... again. Let's troubleshoot:

lspci -nn | grep 0280
rfkill list all
lsmod | grep rtl
dmesg | grep -i rtl

[karnival8]

the sad results:

ryan@RyansYoga:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
ryan@RyansYoga:~$ rfkill list all
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
	Soft blocked: no
	Hard blocked: no
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
	Soft blocked: yes
	Hard blocked: no
ryan@RyansYoga:~$ lsmod | grep rtl
rtl8723ae              80935  0 
rtlwifi                64892  1 rtl8723ae
mac80211              508150  1 rtlwifi
cfg80211              440554  2 rtlwifi,mac80211
compat                 14557  4 rtl8723ae,rtlwifi,mac80211,cfg80211
ryan@RyansYoga:~$ dmesg | grep -i rtl
ryan@RyansYoga:~$ ^C
ryan@RyansYoga:~$

[chili555]

ryan@RyansYoga:~$ lspci -nn | grep 0280
ryan@RyansYoga:~$

Whaaaa...?? That suggests you have NO PCI wireless device! Let's dig deeper:

lspci -nn
lsusb

This, however, suggests maybe you do:

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

Weird.