I have been using Ubuntu on my laptop without any problems but recently ran into a weird issue- my wireless would not switch on. Usually turning off and turning on the wireless switch on my laptop used to solve this problem but this time that did not work. Next, I tried the usual ifconfig wlan0 [...]

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