No wireless after 12.10 installation

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

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

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.

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

Any interesting messages here?

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dmesg | grep rtl

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

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

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sudo modprobe rtl8723ae
dmesg | grep rtl

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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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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

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the sad results:

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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:~$

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

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

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lspci -nn
lsusb

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This, however, suggests maybe you do:

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

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Weird.