Wireless hotkey on Dell XPS 15 9550 has no function

Bug #1589883 reported by Nara Huang
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Bug Description

Title: Wireless hotkey on Dell XPS 15 9550 has no function

Summary:
When pressing wireless hotkey, nothing happens.
Observing "rfkill list", both wifi and bluetooth are not disabled by hotkey.

Steps: 1. Press wireless hotkey (Fn + PrtScr)

Expected results: Wireless hotkey could disable/enable Wireless devices.

Actual results: Wireless hotkey does nothing

Additional information:
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Unit: XPS 15 9550
Wifi/BT:
Device: 02:00.0
Class: Network controller [0280]
Vendor: Broadcom Corporation [14e4]
Device: BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC [43ba]
SVendor: Dell [1028]
SDevice: BCM43602 802.11ac Wireless LAN SoC [0020]
Rev: 01

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6700HQ CPU @ 2.60GHz (8x)

GPU: 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation HD Graphics 530 (rev 06)

Manufacturer: n/a

ProductName: n/a

BiosVersion: n/a

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Cruz Fernandez (cruz-fernandez) wrote :

I'm seeing this in dmesg when pressing the key:

[jun14 21:16] dell_wmi: Unknown key 153 pressed

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