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I am totally new regarding Ubuntu, recently converted from Windows. A friend installed Ubuntu 13.10 on my laptop a few months ago. It's been working great up until about thirty minutes ago.

I booted up the system tonight after having shut it down this morning before work. Upon startup my mouse/cursor is missing, my internet connection is disabled (despite the wireless adapter being switched on and the internet connection working fine on other devices in the house). I am able to use the keyboard and access the terminal, but I don't know the first thing about fixing this issue.

I tried searching the Ubuntu forums and Ask Ubuntu, but I don't see any issues that mimic mine. I also, unfortunately, am unable to offer any sort of system data because I can't access the internet or use the mouse on my laptop to even obtain such data.

I really need help. I can't even begin to speculate how this happened considering everything was working fine at 8 a.m. this morning.

karel
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Necrohazard
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  • Thank you to everyone for attempting to help. The problem is fixed. I found that wired connexions were a no go. But a USB mouse allowed me to use my mouse. I attempted updates (not thinking that I wasn't connected to the internet). Not sure if they took, but I rebooted again to attempt another solution I found on here, and when my laptop booted up again everything was fine. Consider this closed - although not ~technically~ solved. – Necrohazard May 16 '14 at 14:01
  • This could help with the mouse: Invisible mouse on 14.04 with NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200 – rubo77 Jul 27 '14 at 05:22

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I sometimes have similar issue with the cursor. Touchpad gets disabled sometimes. Did you check that. In my laptop, Fn+F3 key combination toggles touchpad on and off. There's a wifi on/off key combination too, which is Fn+F2 in my laptop.

Uttam Pal
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I had the same problem and I found out what happened, I had to stop apt-get while installing wine, and ever since that happened everything started, anyways I just purged wine (you'll maybe need to purge some other pckg) from the terminal using aptitude and everything came back to normal try doing the same ;)

Oh and to solve the pointer problem so it's easier to fix this try this command:

sudo modprobe psmouse
v2r
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José Gramsch
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