Wifi activation problem - HP 2000

[William Muriithi]

> Sadly, on my machine, the lock is handled via a "soft-key", essentially
via running Windows, and pressing "Fn-F12", which would cause a little LED
that is presently orange to switch to blue, and allow a different output
than rfkill is showing:
>
> root at hpaq:~# rfkill list 1
> 1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
>         Soft blocked: no
>         Hard blocked: yes
> root at hpaq:~# rfkill unblock 1
> root at hpaq:~# rfkill list 1
> 1: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN
>         Soft blocked: no
>         Hard blocked: yes
>
> I don't have any Windows install around, so can't reboot there to do a
switcheroo.  I see some suggestions that one might muss around in BIOS and
find an option that would force wifi to stay on; that does not appear to be
the case with this particular system.
>
> It is looking pretty likely, as consequence, that I'll need to grab a USB
wireless adapter for those times I want wireless, which is unfortunate, but
not too totally disastrous.
>
Crap, that kind of sucks. Which HP model is that? Would be good to name it
so that others can avoid it. Kind of take up back to win modem times.

> If there is some mechanism other than rfkill (in the rfkill package) to
switch that "hardware switch" (that isn't truly a hardware switch), 'twould
be nice.
> --
>
William
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