touchpad suddenly stopped working at same time as network management

[keys84]

Had a really bad breakdown yesterday

was doing my normal stuff
all of a sudden touchpad stops working
which it does occasionally and a reboot normally fixes it

then noticed im disconnected from network and none are available wireless (but i can deal with that with ethernet cable)

so after screwing the machne up trying to fix it
I reinstalled 13.10 twice, still same issues

am now using 13.04

but still do not have this solved
it is either broken hardware or a config file somewere in the /home partition
so if anybody could point me to a trackpad config file in the /home folder I would be most appreciative
or maybe its a driver issue

Touchpad is recognised in hardware i think

#
al@n:~$ xinput list-props 11
Device 'SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad':
Device Enabled (133): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (135): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (257): 1
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (258): 2.500000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (259): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (260): 12.500000
Synaptics Edges (280): 1767, 5397, 1637, 4451
Synaptics Finger (281): 25, 30, 256
Synaptics Tap Time (282): 180
Synaptics Tap Move (283): 234
Synaptics Tap Durations (284): 180, 180, 100
Synaptics ClickPad (285): 0
Synaptics Tap FastTap (286): 0
Synaptics Middle Button Timeout (287): 75
Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure (288): 282
Synaptics Two-Finger Width (289): 7
Synaptics Scrolling Distance (290): 106, 106
Synaptics Edge Scrolling (291): 1, 0, 0
Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling (292): 1, 0
Synaptics Move Speed (293): 1.000000, 1.750000, 0.037500, 40.000000
Synaptics Edge Motion Pressure (294): 30, 160
Synaptics Edge Motion Speed (295): 1, 427
Synaptics Edge Motion Always (296): 0
Synaptics Off (297): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags (298): 0
Synaptics Locked Drags Timeout (299): 5000
Synaptics Tap Action (300): 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0
Synaptics Click Action (301): 1, 1, 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling (302): 0
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Distance (303): 0.100007
Synaptics Circular Scrolling Trigger (304): 0
Synaptics Circular Pad (305): 0
Synaptics Palm Detection (306): 0
Synaptics Palm Dimensions (307): 10, 200
Synaptics Coasting Speed (308): 20.000000, 50.000000
Synaptics Pressure Motion (309): 30, 160
Synaptics Pressure Motion Factor (310): 1.000000, 1.000000
Synaptics Resolution Detect (311): 1
Synaptics Grab Event Device (312): 1
Synaptics Gestures (313): 0
Synaptics Capabilities (314): 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
Synaptics Pad Resolution (315): 102, 66
Synaptics Area (316): 0, 0, 0, 0
Synaptics Noise Cancellation (317): 26, 26
Device Product ID (252): 2, 7
Device Node (253): "/dev/input/event6"
al@n:~$
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[GreyGeek]

Same issue after installing 13.10 twice and 13.14 once?
Is your machine fast enough to run a LiveCD as a check?
(Same symptom after 3 installs looks like you have hardware problems.)

[Guest]

Dear all,

I updated my system two days ago and have the same problems!

No touchpad - the sytem settings dialog only says "No touchpad found in this system. If the system has a touchpad, please make sure that the synaptics driver is properly installed and configured." An external USB mouse works.

No wlan - lspci lists "02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Wireless-N 2230 (rev c4)". But all tools only see the wired net (eth0). Unfortunately I have no wired internet connection.

The default kernel is 3.11.0-13-generic. I tried to boot an older kernel (3.5) but the problems remain.

Thank you for any help/hints.

Edit: after issuing a "sudo modprobe iwlwifi" command, the wireless starts working again. Hopefully an update will fix the problem(s)!

Edit2: issued "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade" and everything works again! Must have been an incomplete update or something...