IMB thinkpad T55 Wireless card issue

[Guest]

Today I finely installed my new hdd on my this laptop. The wireless was working great before. Not today of course I did not try Kubuntu first before installing annd not the wireless is off. I am not good at configure this part of the system as yet here is my wireless card.

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
Subsystem: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100 AGN
Physical Slot: 1-1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 48
Memory at f4300000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi

thanks dave

[Guest]

What I do know is that the wireless caard is disabled and there is no link output below

*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
product: PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:1e:65:db:56:10
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.13.0-43-generic firmware=8.83.5.1 build 33692 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:48 memory:f4300000-f4301fff



I have tried to modprobe and it always fails I been looking at the ubuntu wifidocs. I aldo know that the card is supported in the kerrnal but that is my limit. Thinking if I can not figture this out I will just reinstall it after I try it that seems to install the driver.

[vinnywright]

post the output of

rfkill list

to see if its blocked .

VINNY

[Guest]

Yes output states that software is blocked but how does that happen and how do I unblock it? I want to lrean this kind of issue so I can hopefully fix it in the future.

0; phy0; Wireless LAN
Soft blocked yes
Hard blocked no

[Guest]

I tired to unblock it by
sudo rfkill unblock all

which I typed rfkill list again and it was not blocked till I rebooted. lspci -v states that the
kernel driver in use is iwlwfi

Update I did this command to see if it was blocked grep -r "ath5k" /etc/modprobe.d

came back with

etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf # which cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop

I figure I got to unblacklist it but I try that and I am not that good with commands in the shell as yet

[Guest]

I decide to reinstall the system and try Kubuntu than install that seems to get the wireless running.

Update the wireless is now working I think that the driver is on the live dvd.