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EDIT: I now realise that all these happened after my laptop got into suspend/sleep. Sorry that I didnt realise this beforehand. Any solution now?

My wireless connection was working fine. But after a recent update, its not working. Airplane mode is persistently on. I am using dual boot with windows and wifi works fine over there. I tried many fixes that were previously posted but couldnt find a solution. i am now on ubuntu 18.04.3. Rfkill list shows hard block yes. wifi settings shows "No Wifi adapter found Laptop - Hp pavilion g6 2313AX

madhan@madhan-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$ lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp. RT3290 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe [1814:3290]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Ralink RT3290LE 802.11bgn 1x1 Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 4.0 Combo Adapter [103c:18ec]
Kernel driver in use: rt2800pci
Kernel modules: rt2800pci, wl

rfkill list

madhan@madhan-HP-Pavilion-g6-Notebook-PC:~$ rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
maddy
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  • This is not Realtek. It is Ralink. – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:03
  • Please [edit] your question and add output of rfkill list terminal command. – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:04
  • Hardblock means that some hardware switch is off. Check it, or check BIOS settings too. – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:11
  • Thank you Pilot6. But there is no separate hardware switch. Fn+F12 or simply F12 doesnt respond. Its always red light- airplane mode on – maddy Aug 19 '19 at 14:15
  • Check BIOS. Maybe reset it to default. And please add the laptop model to the question. It is model specific. – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:17
  • Was it the full output of rfkill list? – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:20
  • yes... Thats the full output of rfkill list – maddy Aug 19 '19 at 14:21
  • Try to run sudo modprobe hp-wmi. Does it work? – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:22
  • yea I tried it. It doesnt help. I tried it once again now too. doesnt work – maddy Aug 19 '19 at 14:25
  • Did you try to reset bios? – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:29
  • Yes I reset BIOS to default. But still airplane mode persistently on. Wifi adapter not found. Thanks. – maddy Aug 19 '19 at 14:37
  • I have no more ideas. You need to get rid of that hardware block somehow. – Pilot6 Aug 19 '19 at 14:42
  • Yes. i wish I could get rid of that. Thanks! – maddy Aug 19 '19 at 14:44
  • Possibly helpful: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1146342/rfkill-shows-wifi-is-hard-blocked-but-there-is-no-way-to-unlock-it/1146349#1146349 – chili555 Aug 19 '19 at 15:00
  • Thank you chili555. But I have already tried that solution as per the answer. But the problem still exists. I understand that the issue has not much solutions. The closest that I came to solving this is by following https://webwiks.com/techcorner/get-ralink-rt3290-bluetooth-work-in-linux/ After doing as mentioned, the amber light Wifi goes off and blue light comes up- airplane mode goes off but still unable to connect to wifi. But when I reboot everything goes off and amber light returns again- airplane mode on – maddy Aug 19 '19 at 15:09
  • Makes me wonder why and how WiFi was working fine a week ago – maddy Aug 19 '19 at 15:29
  • EDIT: I now realise that all these happened after my laptop got into suspend/sleep. Sorry that I didnt realise this beforehand. Any solution now? – maddy Aug 21 '19 at 13:29

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