networking - WiFI not available after installing TLP on Ubuntu 14.04

This afternoon I installed TLP on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.04.

After the restart my WiFi suddenly stopped working
_ message: "Disconnected - you are now offline"
- I have a button on my keyboard that turns wifi on/off - now it just stays red and doesn't change (to blue) at all when pressed.
- In my network indicator now there no option even to turn wifi on/off and its the same in system settings

• RFKILL LIST ALL gives me:

hp-bluetooth: Bluetooth
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no

And no wireless mentioned at all.

• Attempted fixes: (that did not work)
  
  
  
  
  1. Change the following in TLP's configuration:
  
  

WIFI_PWR_ON_BAT=1
WIFI_PWR_ON_AC=1

2. sudo service network-manager restart




3. I then uninstalled TLP (and purged) - still nothing




4. I then uninstalled other things I installed earlier in the day: Weather and calendar indicators, and preload.

   
   
   
   
   
   • NOTE: i noted in my software center there was 3 changes in the history that i did not recognise: Removal of : Python3 tz, Python dateutil and python3-dateutil (I do not know what these are signifying)
   
   

I do not know what wireless card I have or how to find that out.

Kindly assist me please

EDIT:

• Wireless card: EDIT: found this: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller


• Running the following didnt change anything

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/rtlwifi
    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install rtlwifi-new-dkms-linux-firmware
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

Edit: Seems like my wireless driver has been uninstalled somehow? am I interpreting this correctly?

sudo lshw -c network

Output

description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet controller

Nothing saying Wireless interface???