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I installed Ubuntu 17.04 on an older laptop.

Everything seems to be working fine, except the Wifi.

The Wifi networks are not showing in the ifconfig output, nor in the UI.

The owner of the laptop said Wifi used to work before, when the laptop was running Windows 10.

Relevant output:

$ lspci | grep Wireless
03:00.0 Network controller: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7630e 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter

I tried to restart the network-manager service, but that didn't solve it.

I feel like some drivers/modules are missing or have to be loaded, but I don't know how to do that.

How to solve this problem?

Note: Wireless was not working in the live USB as well. Wired connection does work.

Ionică Bizău
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  • Please [edit] your question and add output of rfkill list terminal command. – Pilot6 Jul 04 '17 at 11:17
  • And after your rfkill list output, if no soft or hard blocked, check to see if network manager even sees your wireless card with iw dev. – Yokai Jul 04 '17 at 11:18
  • @Pilot6 No output for rfkill list. – Ionică Bizău Jul 04 '17 at 11:21
  • @Yokai No output for any of these two commands. – Ionică Bizău Jul 04 '17 at 11:21
  • Can you give the output of lshw -C network? It should show both ethernet and wireless if your wireless card is detected by the kernel. – Yokai Jul 04 '17 at 11:29
  • @Pilot6 Yes, duplicate of that question. Installing that driver solved the problem! Thank you! – Ionică Bizău Jul 04 '17 at 11:31
  • In the future, this link to a number of linux networking and hardware tools may be of help if you run into problems in the future.

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/WirelessTroubleShootingGuide/Commands

     – Yokai Jul 04 '17 at 11:35

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