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I'm an L2 helpdesk guy and I have a user whose Lenovo L440 will not coect to wifi. The wifi icon in the notification area shows a red X and the "tu wireless on" button is greyed out in the Mobility Center. When she presses F8, it shows that wifi is on. The adapter is enabled and "allow to tu off to save power" is unchecked. We've reinstalled Pro/Set Wireless, and tried to install the adapter driver from the Device Manager. When I uninstalled the device there, checking the "remove driver" checkbox, it did not find the driver in Windows Update and I had to install Pro/Set Wireless from the Intel website. I've reinstalled the Hotkey Features Integration package and the Power Management driver. ...

Yesterday, my laptop (Lenovo E320) suddenly enabled "Airplane mode" after reboot, saying I should toggle my hardware switch to enable wifi (and bluetooth) again. The thing is I don't have such switch on my laptop. I was ruing Debian testing when the problem first occured, and tried to reinstall the whole system on a brand new drive, but the problem persists. Wifi is enabled in BIOS. I have followed several tutorials, mostly from askubuntu, but none of them worked for me. rfkill unblock all only fixes soft blocks power off, removing battery and bios reset do nothing reinstall (purge) firmware-iwlwifi package and restart doesn't work restart network-manager doesn't work adding "blacklist wmi" ...