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Somehow, my nephew (who destroys everything he touches) has managed to disable the wifi on his Acer Aspire One series netbook (Model #ZG5).

It's running 14.04 LTS (32-bit). rfkill list indicates it's not soft blocked, but hard blocked.

However, there is no wifi switch on this particular model, and no Fn key shortcut, either. I've scoured the internet... but none of the solutions I've found so far seem to work. Any advice?

I've looked at this question and it doesn't apply to me:

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Lucas W
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I met the same problem with the ACER Aspire One of my daughter. rfkill list revealed that Wireless LAN is Hard blocked. Using sudo rfkill unblock 0 (0 referencing Wireless LAN in above list) solved the issue !

Kelumden
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This worked for me in acer aspire ES 521

You have to blacklist the acer-wmi kernel module:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
add blacklist acer_wmi as a new line at the bottom of this file.

then reboot.
bhuvanes
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