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I am using Dell Inspiron 15, 3537 ( approx 7 yrs old )

I am having Ubuntu 20 lts. Every thing was fine.

My laptop hanged while uploading some large files, in bulky resource eating CHROME.

I tried every thing to stop the process.

But in vain.. No method known to human worked.

It was just froozen.

Now , with anger, I hit the Power button. Even that hanged.

After holding the power button for some time, finally it shut down.

After booting, every thing was quite the same. Except

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my wifi , which was earlier working, had now stopped working.

You are reading me because I had a wire which you call ethernet cable

But now, leave every thing else, and please help me..

I am in deep agony..

Look at the results of some terminal commands

❯ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for aahnik: 
  *-network                 
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
       logical name: enp1s0
       version: 07
       serial: 74:86:7a:37:59:7b
       size: 100Mbit/s
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 duplex=full firmware=rtl8106e-1_0.0.1 06/29/12 ip=192.168.1.7 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
       resources: irq:18 ioport:3000(size=256) memory:b0600000-b0600fff memory:b0400000-b0403fff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlp2s0
       version: 01
       serial: 0c:84:dc:01:29:93
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=5.4.0-48-generic firmware=N/A latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11
       resources: irq:19 memory:b0500000-b057ffff memory:b0580000-b058ffff

hmm

❯ tail -f /var/log/messages
tail: cannot open '/var/log/messages' for reading: No such file or directory
tail: no files remaining

> iwconfig
lo      no wireless extensions.

wlp2s0    IEEE 802.11  ESSID:off/any

          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm

          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:off


enp1s0    no wireless extensions.

HELP !!

Dont worry about my date, its safely backed up.

Give me a solution other than re installing ubuntu

aahnik
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hula lall la a

I am overflowing with joy..

BECOS I FOUND THE SOLUTION

in my question I said, I forced shutdown.

i earlier tried ctrl + alt + f1 to restart the display manager.

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I read somewhere about this ctrl + alt + f1, but don't remember

While pressing and throwing my impulse on the keys, I accidentally had pressed fn + f2 which unfortunately was the physical switch for hard blocking the wifi adapter.

So my wireless plan got hard blocked.

I read this

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and then saw this

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Then I pressed Fn + F2. And heavens showered flowers upon me ...

rfkill kills your misery

so earlier

0: dell-rbtn: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: yes
    Hard blocked: yes

and now

0: dell-rbtn: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

do you know what is different bw my question and answer ?

I had asked the question with my ethernet, and answering it with my wifi

aahnik
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