Anthropornis: I can't tell whether your problem is really the same. I'd assume you've tried this, but since you didn't mention it specifically -- pressing the wifi button doesn't unblock your wireless? Can you provide the output of 'rfkill list' before and after pressing the button?
Denva: Will you run the following commands in a terminal and attache the *.dsl files that are generated?
sudo apt-get install fwts
sudo fwts --disassemble-aml
Anthropornis: I can't tell whether your problem is really the same. I'd assume you've tried this, but since you didn't mention it specifically -- pressing the wifi button doesn't unblock your wireless? Can you provide the output of 'rfkill list' before and after pressing the button?