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QUESTION UPDATED

I have a dual boot with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 10. Wifi was working fine until two days ago, and it stopped working for no apparent reason. Wifi in Windows 10 is working fine.

There has been some developments in the question above and the problem itself changed. In my Asus Zenbook, I had originally disabled Secure Boot, but when this problem started to happen I realised that it was enabled again. As mentioned in the previous question the behaviour of Ubuntu recognising the card was quite erratic. However, there was in the BIOS an option called Secure boot control which was enabled. I don't know what it means, but I disabled it and the erratic behaviour disappeared.

Since then, the wifi adapter is still not working, but lshw always gives the following message:

sudo lshw -c network
  *-network UNCLAIMED       
       description: Network controller
       product: Wireless 8260
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       version: 3a
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:ef000000-ef001fff

Other commands:

lspci -nnk | grep 0280 -A3
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:24f3] (rev 3a)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Wireless 8260 [8086:0110]
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi

sudo modprobe iwlwifi && dmesg | grep iwl
[    3.626468] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: Refused to change power state, currently in D3
[    3.626772] iwlwifi 0000:02:00.0: HW_REV=0xFFFFFFFF, PCI issues?
[    3.651088] iwlwifi: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -5

sudo rfkill list all
0: hci0: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

sudo modinfo iwlwifi | grep 24F3 | grep 0050
alias:          pci:v00008086d000024F3sv*sd00000050bc*sc*i*

I have the following kernel, updated yesterday (Ubuntu is 18.04.4):

uname -a
Linux arbexzen 5.3.0-62-generic #56~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 24 16:17:03 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

This happens in two different computers, one with Ubuntu 20.04 and another with 18.04.

The left 40% of the tablet maps horizontally to the entire monitor, while vertically it works fine - bottom to top in the tablet is bottom to top in the monitor. The remaining 60% of the tablet is unused. Both computers are dual boot with Windows 10 and the tablet works fine in both.

Is there a way to map the entire tablet area to the entire monitor?

I tried configuring the Wacom tablet using the settings in Ubuntu. I chose tablet absolute and relative, I clicked "map to a single monitor" in the option Map to monitor.

I tried xsetwacom in command line. Following these instructions:

https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/scale-your-wacom-tablet-to-a-single-monitor/8036

I tried setting:

xsetwacom --get "Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos S stylus" area
0 0 15200 9500

If I change it to a larger horizontal value:

xsetwacom --set "Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos S stylus" area 0 0 30400 9500

The tablet area remains unchanged, but the pen does not go to the horizontal end of the monitor. If I change it to a smaller number (smaller than 15200) then the tablet area where the pen is "active" is reduced.

I also tried:

xsetwacom --set "Wacom Co.,Ltd. Intuos S stylus" MapToMonitor eDP-1

where eDP-1 is my monitor name from typing xrandr.

Thanks for any help!

Update

There is a weird behaviour here. If I switch on my computer with the tablet already plugged in, it works fine! If I plug in the tablet after the computer is on, the problem reported above happens.

If, when it is working fine, I disconnect the tablet and then connect again, the problem above also happens.

I access via ssh (command line) a Linux machine and the user is not configured to do anything. Backspace does not work, there is no tab completion, the current folder does not appear in the terminal (just a $ sign). There is also no bash history.

The Ubuntu version 12.04, and I only have ssh access to it, I cannot access its graphical interface. When I log in, it goes automatically to a Tomcat folder, but there is a home folder where I tried copying a properly configured .bashrc file with no success.

How can I add these functionalities to my terminal from command line?

I have a HP dv2745se laptop. I always had Ubuntu with the Native Windows Vista and Wifi worked fine. Suddenly my Ubuntu wouldn't load anymore, I tried fixing it for a week and eventually I formatted its partition and just installed Ubuntu 12.10

This laptop has a Wifi switch that works fine in Vista disabling / enabling the wireless connection. HP Wireless Assistant in Windows say Wireless is on. However, whenever I log in Ubuntu the Wifi button is always orange (disabled) and Wireless never works.

I had this problem once when I had Ubuntu 12.04 and I fixed it by verifying in Windows that the Wireless Assistant showed the Wireless LAN in "On" mode. However, the same does not work now.

I've seen some possible solutions that involve updating the firmware with apt-get. There comes my 2nd problem, my network adapter card is not working and thus I have no internet at all.

Any suggestions? Thanks!