Comment 34 for bug 771758

Out of curiosity, does your machine have 3G?

I'm going to drop that patch (for now) since it didn't help. I've built a new kernel for you to test that should disable the polling that's causing the rfkill state to be reset, and it might even get your wifi hotkey working. You can get it here:

http://people.canonical.com/~sforshee/lp771758/linux-2.6.38-10.44~lp771758v201106072112/