And I can answer the above question (forgive the syntax it's from memory, but the text is correct). After it stops working again (after the unblock suggested by M Garrett), rfkill list shows something like this:
0: hp-wifi Hard blocked: yes Soft blocked: no
1: phy0 Hard blocked: no Soft blocked: no
And yes, the device number shown for phy0 changes from 4 to 1 after working, it is not a typing error.
And I can answer the above question (forgive the syntax it's from memory, but the text is correct). After it stops working again (after the unblock suggested by M Garrett), rfkill list shows something like this:
0: hp-wifi Hard blocked: yes
Soft blocked: no
1: phy0 Hard blocked: no
Soft blocked: no
And yes, the device number shown for phy0 changes from 4 to 1 after working, it is not a typing error.