Comment 36 for bug 53953

1. The latter. Therefore autowlan=1 just enables the ability to manually pres the physical switch - it is not automatic.

As for the type of switch, I am not sure what you mean. I think it is unfortunately what you describe as momentary push-to-make type. There are no positions to the switch - it does not have "pressed" and "released" states. It works like a key on a keyboard - you press it, a key is written, and then you release it and it goes back to its original position. Only that wifi is turned off/on only after releasing the button whereas keys on keyboard work already after being pressed. (There is a picture of the laptop for you to check: http://www.gsm4u.cz/Obrazy/Prestigio_1570_20-rozlozeny_A4.jpg it is a similar type to the notebook in question. The button is the top one of the five buttons situated no the left.)

Acerhk is unfortunately no longer developed:-(.

(this bug has originally been opened because without autowlan=1, it is not possible to use one of the extra buttons to turn the wifi off and back on: without autowlan=1, the button that is supposed to manipulate wifi is treated just as another extra key, i.e. I can assign actions to it through GNOME, but I cannot turn off wifi with the button.
I think I am not the only one who is running linux on this laptop - I still regularly see exactly this type when I go to the library and I know that someone on our natinonal unix community is running BSD on it, so there must be some people running linux on it, this type was once rather popular in Czech Republic - just giving the rational that I may not the only one still affected.)