[Solved] Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
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[Solved] Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
I have a lenovo yoga 2 11 laptop with a qualcom atheros AR9565 network adapter and I have no WIFI on my Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon. Trying to research what need to be upgraded. is it the Kernel or a driver? My kernel is 3.13.0-37 and I know there are several updated kernels and which one might fix my problem or is it a driver upgrade I need?
Thanks for any help I can get.
Gary Wilkins
Thanks for any help I can get.
Gary Wilkins
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Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
Open a terminal window and enteraeromac wrote:I have a lenovo yoga 2 11 laptop with a qualcom atheros AR9565 network adapter and I have no WIFI on my Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon. Trying to research what need to be upgraded. is it the Kernel or a driver? My kernel is 3.13.0-37 and I know there are several updated kernels and which one might fix my problem or is it a driver upgrade I need?
Thanks for any help I can get.
Gary Wilkins
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rfkill list all
Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
Done that, didn't fix it. Also the Bluetooth hardware shows hard block but it works you can turn on Bluetooth but the wifi won't turn on even when I built a wifi connection with security, DNS servers and such.
Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
I personally had this problem and researched all day today. Tried lots of stuff but after inputing the codes : and it finally fixed the problem after rebooting. Hope it helps, good luck!
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
With the Yoga2 you can go into the Update Manager, click View and then Linux Kernels, then select the 3.16.0-30 kernel to install and your wifi should work again. Lenovo changed how they reported the hard block on these laptops and it caused linux users problems until the kernel developers found the problem and got the patches submitted
Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
I thought about upgrading to 3.16, but from everything I have read it's best to stay within the 3.13 and only do point updates which i have. I might just try it and see what happens.
What I have found out is there is two wlan0's in the rfkill list all. there is two wlan0 listed one pci and the other ideapad and it's the ideapad which is listed first and the hardware blocked. I think i might have to black list this some how to remove it from the /etc/modprobe list. Has anyone seen this? Am I on the right track?
What I have found out is there is two wlan0's in the rfkill list all. there is two wlan0 listed one pci and the other ideapad and it's the ideapad which is listed first and the hardware blocked. I think i might have to black list this some how to remove it from the /etc/modprobe list. Has anyone seen this? Am I on the right track?
Re: Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
I wouldn't hesitate to use the 3.16.0-30 and it isn't difficult to remove a kernel by using grub menu at boot(press and hold shift key to make it appear) and select previous version then select the old kernel to boot from and use update manager to remove the newer kernel.aeromac wrote:I thought about upgrading to 3.16, but from everything I have read it's best to stay within the 3.13 and only do point updates which i have. I might just try it and see what happens.
What I have found out is there is two wlan0's in the rfkill list all. there is two wlan0 listed one pci and the other ideapad and it's the ideapad which is listed first and the hardware blocked. I think i might have to black list this some how to remove it from the /etc/modprobe list. Has anyone seen this? Am I on the right track?
The alternative is usually
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sudo modprobe -r ideapad_laptop
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sudo rfkill unblock all
Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
WHOAH the modprobe -r ideapad_laptop worked. I now have WIFI and i'm back on the kernel 3.13.0.45 version
Thank you.
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Thank you.
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Re: Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
You will either need to run the sudo modprobe command after boot/suspend or you can blacklist itaeromac wrote:WHOAH the modprobe -r ideapad_laptop worked. I now have WIFI and i'm back on the kernel 3.13.0.45 version
Thank you.
marked as SOLVED
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echo "blacklist ideapad_laptop" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ideapad.conf
The code in the 3.16.0-30 changed how ideapad_laptop handles hard blocks for the Yoga models without hardware switches
Last edited by JeremyB on Thu Feb 05, 2015 3:58 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Re: Lenovo qualcom atheros AR9565 wifi notworking
oh your good. I was just getting ready to ask how to make it permanent. blacklist or add a command to rc.local.