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I bought a used MSI U230 laptop with Windows installed. I immediately installed Ubuntu 14.04 in its place, so I don't know if wireless was working on Windows. But in Ubuntu, it's telling me "wi-fi is disabled via hardware switch".

Running rfkill list all returns:

Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes

My laptop has no hardware switch. As per this page, I tried pressing fn-f11, which didn't do anything.

I also read that unplugging the laptop, taking out the battery, and pressing the power button for 30 seconds would turn the hardware switch on, but again, that did nothing.

Then I tried booting to BIOS, selecting Default Settings => yes and Save & Exit => yes, but once again, nothing. The command rfkill unblock all doesn't do anything either.

So I opened Settings and went to Network. Turns out, Airplane Mode is turned on as well. There's a switch for Airplane Mode and a switch for Wireless. If I turn on the switch for Wireless, it just switches automatically back to off. If I turn off the switch for Airplane Mode, it stays off, but then when I exit out of Settings and enter it again, it's once again switched on.

Has anyone ever experienced anything like this?? This is driving me crazy.

Joe Morano
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Please consult the manual that can be downloaded here: https://www.msi.com/Notebook/support/U230.html#down-manual The key combination for wireless is Fn+F8. I hope it will enable your wireless.

Eliah Kagan
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chili555
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Please see here:

Run this in terminal

sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/asus.conf <<< "options asus_nb_wmi wapf=4"

It is work for me

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