Wifi not working with Asus X551 and Ubuntu

Question

I just bought an Asus X551 and installed ubuntu but the wireless connections can't seem to work. Any ideas why this is happening?

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

It looks like "Wi-Fi is disabled by hardware switch" and following links have solved it for me

As root, create a file named e.g. asus-wifi.conf and put it in in /etc/modprobe.d/
Insert this line in it: options asus_nb_wmi wapf=1
Reboot and see if wifi works.

I had same problem using Fedora F19, F20 and Ubuntu F14.04

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