Acer aspire one.....No Wi-Fi (Solved-Hardware failure)

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Or just tell him to get one of these:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Edimax-EW-7811UN-150Mbps-Wireless-Adapter/dp/B003MTTJOY

They're tiny, so won't get caught on anything .. and they work out ofthe box with Peppermint 5 / Ubuntu 14.04 / Mint 17 / etc.

[Jocklad 1]

Thanks Mark

Will have a look at BIOS first.

Jocklad

[Jocklad 1]

 He has been running this with a wi-fi dongle for last few days.

 No problem at all.

 He can get online so happy to leave it at that.

 Thanks again for all your help Mark.

 Jocklad.

[Mark Greaves (PCNetSpec)]

Great news

[zazarickoty]

Hi Mark: Model D255-2DQrr

[email protected] ~ $ rfkill list
2: phy2: Wireless LAN
   Soft blocked: no
   Hard blocked: no
[email protected] ~ $ sudo lshw -C network
[sudo] password for george:
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet
       vendor: Qualcomm Atheros
       physical id: 0
       bus info: [email protected]:01:00.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: c1 Chaturbate Xnxx Tubegalore
       serial: 1c:75:08:09:08:8b
       capacity: 100Mbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=atl1c driverversion=1.0.1.1-NAPI latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair
       resources: irq:45 memory:57000000-5703ffff ioport:5000(size=128)
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       physical id: 1
       bus info: [email protected]:3
       logical name: wlan1
       serial: e8:94:f6:17:ce:a5
       capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=3.13.0-38-generic firmware=0.29 ip=192.168.43.106 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
[email protected]AOD255 ~ $

Remove the power lead and battery (so it has NO power)
Press the power button (to discharge any remaining power in the motherboards capacitors)
Replace the battery and power lead