Lenovo success except no wireless

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2017-06-10 at 11:59 +1000, Phil wrote:
> I finally managed to get no-1802 to do it's job, now I can log into
> my laptop.

Yay!

> One small problem though. I managed to corrupt Windows, through my
> own carelessness, so I've lost the original Lenovo Windows drivers
> which means that the wireless network card is turned off.

It's turned off in Windows, or it's turned of in Ubuntu, or it's turned
off in both?

>  Function F5 (under Windows) should toggle the wireless on and off.
> Some of the function keys work under Ubuntu but no all. I still have
> Ethernet and a USB wireless dongle that does the job but I'd still
> like the have the internal wireless card working.

See if rfkill helps:

   sudo rfkill unblock all

> Again, I've searched the Internet for an answer but apart from
> finding that this is a common problem, no joy. Does anyone have any
> suggestions? By the way, the EBay vendor will reinstall Windows for
> me but I'm up for the postage which is not inconsiderable.

If the laptop has a licence key stuck to it somewhere, you can just
download or otherwise obtain Windows from anywhere and re-use the key.
Alternatively, you may be able to extract the key from the ACPI tables:

   sudo strings -20 /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM

Regards, K.

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