Ralink 802.11n WLAN Greyed out

I'm going to need to start using the WiFi on my Ubuntu system soon but my onboard WiFi is very slow and bad. However, Ubuntu is not letting me use my WiFi card. I'm not really sure what to do, I have tried looking into the issue and install drivers, etc., without success. I typed in the command rfkill and this is what it shows:

$ rfkill list
0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no
2: phy1: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no

Also when I do sudo lshw -C network, this is what that shows:

$ sudo lshw -C network *-network description: Ethernet interface /// this is the one i need working product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: enp3s0 version: 06 serial: 74:d4:35:9e:28:9c size: 1Gbit/s capacity: 1Gbit/s width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8168 driverversion=8.041.00-NAPI duplex=full latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=1Gbit/s resources: irq:28 ioport:ce00(size=256) memory:fddff000-fddfffff memory:fddf8000-fddfbfff *-network description: Wireless interface product: AR9227 Wireless Network Adapter vendor: Qualcomm Atheros /// this is my on-board ,so i cant use it. physical id: 6 bus info: pci@0000:04:06.0 logical name: wlp4s6 version: 01 serial: e8:94:f6:57:42:e3 width: 32 bits clock: 66MHz capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ath9k driverversion=4.4.0-98-generic firmware=N/A ip=10.0.0.49 latency=168 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn resources: irq:20 memory:fdcf0000-fdcfffff *-network:0 description: Ethernet interface physical id: 1 logical name: ham0 serial: 7a:79:19:10:87:c8 size: 10Mbit/s capabilities: ethernet physical configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes driver=tun driverversion=1.6 duplex=full ip=25.16.135.200 link=yes multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=10Mbit/s *-network:1 description: Wireless interface physical id: 2 bus info: usb@2:1 logical name: wlxdc85de4a57c1 serial: dc:85:de:4a:57:c1 capabilities: ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=rt2800usb driverversion=4.4.0-98-generic firmware=0.29 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn

I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 and have not tried using the WiFi card before, however I know the card itself works on my Windows system. I'm kind of clueless as to what is wrong at this point so if anyone could please help me I would be very thankful.

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