Comment 0 for bug 1774443

Laptop is an HP Pavilion dm4-3170se. Dual booting Windows 7 and ubuntu. In Windows, system boots with wireless disabled and then pressing the wireless enable button twice enables WiFi.

In ubuntu, system boots with wireless disabled and wireless enable button has no functionality either directly or in combination with the fn-key.

Module hp_wmi may be the culprit? But disabling this has no effect on hardblock.

reference forum post for more detailed info: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2392934&p=13772159#post13772159

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: network-manager 1.2.6-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-43.48~16.04.1-generic 4.13.16
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-43-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2.17
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu May 31 10:32:38 2018
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-05-19 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20180228)
IpRoute:
 default via 172.16.96.1 dev eno1 proto static metric 100
 169.254.0.0/16 dev eno1 scope link metric 1000
 172.16.96.0/19 dev eno1 proto kernel scope link src 172.16.119.109 metric 100
 192.17.90.180 via 172.16.96.1 dev eno1 proto dhcp metric 100
NetworkManager.state:
 [main]
 NetworkingEnabled=true
 WirelessEnabled=true
 WWANEnabled=true
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: yes
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
nmcli-con:
 NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT AUTOCONNECT-PRIORITY READONLY DBUS-PATH ACTIVE DEVICE STATE ACTIVE-PATH
 Wired connection 1 0357c159-f43c-38f9-8b6f-91bb641d1712 802-3-ethernet 1527780471 Thu 31 May 2018 10:27:51 AM CDT yes 4294966297 no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 yes eno1 activated /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1
nmcli-dev:
 DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH CONNECTION CON-UUID CON-PATH
 eno1 ethernet connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/2 Wired connection 1 0357c159-f43c-38f9-8b6f-91bb641d1712 /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/1
 wlp8s0 wifi unavailable /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 -- -- --
 lo loopback unmanaged /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 -- -- --
nmcli-nm:
 RUNNING VERSION STATE STARTUP CONNECTIVITY NETWORKING WIFI-HW WIFI WWAN-HW WWAN
 running 1.2.6 connected started full enabled enabled disabled enabled enabled