Let me first say I have tried different things before posting.After installing Ubuntu 16.04 LTS the wifi was totally disabled. It showed Wi-fi disabled. After trying the all solutions in this question How do I get an RT3290 wireless card to work? it started showing Wi-fi Networks but there was no connections available. Then I tried the solutions in Wifi networks are not showing in Ubuntu 16.04, but then there was absolutely nothing called Wi-fi Networks. Then I did `
sudo ifconfig rename3 up *(rename3 is the logical name of my wireless interface)*
sudo systemctl restart network-manager
After this it went back to previous stage but still it was not showing any available wifi connections.
sudo lshw -C network
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: rename3
version: 00
serial: 1c:3e:84:58:05:33
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=Ralink STA
resources: irq:16 memory:63510000-6351ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0e:00.0
logical name: eno1
version: 05
serial: 2c:59:e5:a4:ce:e4
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 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.0.105 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:26 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:63404000-63404fff memory:63400000-63403fff
I have just switched from windows and I am kind of lost, for two days I've been trying to make it work. Please some help would be really great and I really want to keep using Linux.
After trying things in ubuntu 16.04 I installed 14.04. After fresh installation
rfkill list all
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
lsmod | grep -e wmi -e laptop
hp_wmi 16384 0
sparse_keymap 16384 1 hp_wmi
snd_rawmidi 32768 1 snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_device 16384 3 snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_midi
snd 81920 17 snd_hda_codec_realtek,snd_hwdep,snd_timer,snd_hda_codec_hdmi,snd_pcm,snd_seq,snd_rawmidi,snd_hda_codec_generic,snd_hda_codec,snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_device
wmi 20480 1 hp_wmi
Then I found another question that was solved Ralink rt3290 wifi driver is not working in Ubuntu 14.04 and tried the solution then something changed.
rfkill list all is showing nothing and sudo lshw -C network gave the following output where *-network DISABLED of the wireless interface was no longer there.
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
vendor: Ralink corp.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:07:00.0
logical name: ra0
version: 00
serial: 1c:3e:84:58:05:33
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=RALINK WLAN latency=0 multicast=yes wireless=Ralink STA
resources: irq:16 memory:63510000-6351ffff
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0e:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 05
serial: 2c:59:e5:a4:ce:e4
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 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl_nic/rtl8105e-1.fw ip=192.168.0.104 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=100Mbit/s
resources: irq:26 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:63404000-63404fff memory:63400000-63403fff
Another information I got when I did nmcli dev
DEVICE TYPE STATE
eth0 802-3-ethernet unavailable
ra0 802-11-wireless disconnected
usb0 802-3-ethernet connected
