Can't enable my wifi on Lenovo G40-30 laptop

I've searched for an answer by myself for a very long time but nothing helped me. I can't turn my wifi on (although it works perfectly with Windows) and I can't use ethernet for other reasons. I've already tried rfkill and "create a shortcut.." but neither of those worked for me.. I'm using a Lenovo G40 with Windows 10 as Primary OS and Ubuntu 14.04 as a dual boot.

For both commands.. (ifconfig and lspci -knn | grep Net -A2 ) ..the output was:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter [168c:0036] (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:4026]
    Kernel driver in use: ath9k

Here's the output for rfkill list

0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes
1: ideapad_bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: yes
2: phy0: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

3: hci0: Bluetooth

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: no

for sudo dmidecode | grep "System Information" -A8

 System Information
        Manufacturer: LENOVO
        Product Name: 80FY
        Version: Lenovo G40-30

        Wake-up Type: Power Switch
        Family: IDEAPAD

Solution 1:

If you have no other connection to internet, you can temporarily enable wifi by

sudo modprobe -r ideapad_laptop
sudo rfkill unblock all

To make it permanent run

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/ideapad-laptop
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ideapad-laptop-dkms

This will install ideapad_laptop with my patch for this laptop. The patch has been accepted upstream but did not reach all Ubuntu kernels.