Wifi disabled in hardware - SOLVED

[bushy]

Asus x551c laptop wifi worked correctly when booted from a USB Live OS, once it was installed to the HDD the wifi was disabled. I have a f2 key that would toggle wifi on and off but it doesn't do anything within Mint17. Any suggestions?

sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py
[sudo] password for tom:
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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
-- Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
==> PCI ID = 168c:0032 (rev 01)
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
eth0 no wireless extensions.

lo no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off

[JeremyB]

This might be fixed in the latest kernel available though Mint Update Manager. Open Update Manager, click refresh, then View/Linux Kernels, and install 3.13.0-43 and reboot.

If that doesn't work, in terminal enter

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echo "options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/asus_nb_wmi.conf

Reboot and see if it is disabled by hardware switch, if it is use the F2 or FN+F2 and see if it works then

[bushy]

I could not install the suggested kernal w/oInternet access. However the suggested code did the trick, thank you for the help.