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Recently I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on my HP 630 and when I try to turn on wifi, it does not work. I have read somewhere that it may be the wifi button but it doesn't turn on and the fn works with the volume or scrn brightness. I use a Qualcomm Atheros ar9285 card and the driver is installed. The only problem is that I cannot connect to the wifi. On Windows 7 it worked, so the button itself is working.

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Cristi S
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I have had some bad experiences with some HP laptops in this regard. There may be a BIOS or similar bug that doesn't properly un-kill the radio chips. The only workaround I have found is to try to enable WiFi in BIOS or POST and avoid disabling it in hardware once booted. If you need to disable WiFi, try to do it in software.

To verify that I'm not completely wrong in my assumptions, could you please show the output of rfkill list? If WiFi is hard blocked as well as soft blocked, then it could be the bug I mentioned.

Stephen Angelico
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