Wifi is disabled by Hardware Switch

[Abdul Ahad]

Problem: Wifi is disabled by Hardware Switch
System: HP Pavilion M6 1045dx, Core i5, with intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230
Dual Boot with windows 8.1

Output of lshw -C network
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  *-network
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 0.2
       bus info: pci@0000:01:00.2
       logical name: eth0
       version: 0a
       serial: ac:16:2d:4d:22:c6
       size: 1Gbit/s
       capacity: 1Gbit/s
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress msix vpd bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full firmware=rtl8411-1_0.0.3 06/18/12 ip=192.168.137.235 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
       resources: irq:43 ioport:2000(size=256) memory:50404000-50404fff memory:50400000-50403fff
  *-network DISABLED
       description: Wireless interface
       product: Centrino Wireless-N 2230
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: c4
       serial: 68:5d:43:85:15:83
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.13.0-46-generic firmware=18.168.6.1 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
       resources: irq:46 memory:50500000-50501fff

Outpu of rfkill list
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0: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

[Jason Anderson (ertain)]

This sometimes happens to me when I boot up my laptop or restart, even if I haven't done anything in Windows for days. What usually happens is that my system doesn't try to connect to our WLAN when my system starts, so I have to start it manually. Even when I use the "nmcli" command it can't "undo" the hardware switch.