Can't turn off 'Airplane Mode' after toggling hardware wifi switch

[Sicco van Sas]

Airplane Mode is stuck on 'On' after I turn off + turn on wifi via the hardware switch on my laptop (Asus N53SV-S1827V), resulting in having no wifi. If I go to 'Network' and turn off Airplane Mode the switch does flip visually (though wifi doesn't start connecting), but when I reopen the Network window the switch depicts Airplane mode to be on again.

I tried 'sudo rfkill unblock all' but this doesn't solve it. I have to restart my laptop after which Airplane Mode is still on, but now I can effectively toggle the switch in the Network window. This results in a crash of the Network window, but wifi starts to connect again and when reopening the Network window it shows that Airplane Mode is off.

The above behavior doesn't happen when I turn off wifi via the software switch, so it must be related to toggling the hardware switch.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu4.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-40.64-generic 3.2.40
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 26 13:41:32 2013
IfupdownConfig:
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
IpRoute:
 default via 192.168.1.254 dev eth0 proto static
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000
 192.168.1.0/24 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.67 metric 1
MarkForUpload: True
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=false
 WWANEnabled=true
 WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
 eth0 802-3-ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1
 wlan0 802-11-wireless unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
 running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled disabled enabled enabled

[Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)]

Reassigning to gnome-control-center; this isn't an issue in NetworkManager itself (seeing as we don't have any such Airplane mode per se, which is something only in the control panel Network pane).

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Eduard Masip (waze96)]

The problem it keeps in Ubuntu 20.04
In my case I use a Notebook HP 15s-fq1042ns, it uses a iwlwifi driver.