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I have a Dell Latitude E5450 which I have installed ubuntu 20.04 on and I can't get the wifi adapter to work. I have checked and I do have the recognized wireless 7265 but it is unable to be used for some reason. I have tried moving the intel drivers (iwlwifi7265-14.ucode and iwlwifi7265D-14.ucode) to /lib/firmware. I have attempted lots of searching around and trying various methods but as I'm quite new to linux I am struggling to work out how to implement fixes or work out if they are relevant to my machine. I only have ubuntu 20.04 installed on this device although it previously had windows 10

As requested, here is a pastebin of my wireless info https://pastebin.ubuntu.com/p/HrGz4WQSdJ/

Alex
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  • See https://askubuntu.com/questions/425155/my-wireless-wifi-connection-does-not-work-what-information-is-needed-to-diagnos/425180 – waltinator Mar 18 '22 at 04:23
  • The output says you are hard blocked. This means there is a hardware switch somewhere on the device or possibly in your BIOS settings that has wifi turned off. It could be a physical switch, it could also be a function or fn key combo on the laptop. – mchid Mar 18 '22 at 04:44
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    Other than a wifi switch, it could be an airplane mode switch. At least one website says to press the Fn + PrtScr buttons together for the E5450 model. – mchid Mar 18 '22 at 04:47
  • okay awesome I think it was the wifi switch, when I had tried the button combination meant to turn it off before it didn't work but I just went into the BIOS and removed the controls from the switch so now everything is working perfectly. Thank you so much! This has been bugging me for weeks! – Alex Mar 18 '22 at 04:54

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Issue was with the wifi switch. Couldn't get the switch to actually work so I just went into BIOS and removed the switches power over my adapters. Now everything seems to be working great.

Alex
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