Comment 7 for bug 1797772

By the way. I went to linux kernel 5.2.1 ideapad_laptop.c and now there's no no_hw_rfkill_list. It's the opposite, now it has to be specified if there is a hw-rfkill. So that new laptops don't get this problem.

One option is to install a ppa with a recent kernel.

From the file:
* Some ideapads have a hardware rfkill switch, but most do not have one.
 * Reading VPCCMD_R_RF always results in 0 on models without a hardware rfkill,
 * switch causing ideapad_laptop to wrongly report all radios as hw-blocked.
 * There used to be a long list of DMI ids for models without a hw rfkill
 * switch here, but that resulted in playing whack a mole.
 * More importantly wrongly reporting the wifi radio as hw-blocked, results in
 * non working wifi. Whereas not reporting it hw-blocked, when it actually is
 * hw-blocked results in an empty SSID list, which is a much more benign
 * failure mode.
 * So the default now is the much safer option of assuming there is no
 * hardware rfkill switch. This default also actually matches most hardware,
 * since having a hw rfkill switch is quite rare on modern hardware, so this
 * also leads to a much shorter list.
 */