wifi does not work on hp pavillion. got report from wireless info script

Question

I have ubuntu 16.04 on an hp pavillion and the wifi does not work. not an expert but I saw My wireless/WiFi connection does not work. What information is needed to diagnose the issue?. It told me to use this wierd script so this is the output:

http://hastebin.com/zolequyize.vbs

Answer 1

The problem is evidently the same as with this question. You can test it out by doing

sudo modprobe -r acer-wmi
sudo rfkill unblock all

You can then make this permanent by doing

sudo su
echo "blacklist acer-wmi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf