Comment 66 for bug 857297

Thanks Seth. I tested 3.0.0-13.21.

Herton, results are not perfect with functionality limited as follows:

Installed 3.0.0-13.21 and tested:

Boot up
- Wireless works

Turn wireless hard switch off
- wireless disabled - result below:
graham@LENOVO:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

Turn wireless hard switch on
- Wireless still disabled
- Have to click on wireless access point connection in network manager to enable wireless as wireless does not enable automatically
- Wireless then works - result below:
graham@LENOVO:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

Turn wireless soft key off
- Wireless disabled - result below
graham@LENOVO:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: yes
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: yes

Turn wireless soft key on
- Wireless still disabled
- Unable to click on wireless access point connection to enable wireless as wireless access points in network manager are not displayed after turning wireless soft key off
- Wireless still disabled but all "block = no" - result below:
graham@LENOVO:~$ sudo rfkill list
0: acer-wireless: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

- Reboot re-enables wireless

When turning wireless off with hard switch or soft key the wireless does not re-enable automatically when turning wireless hard switch or wireless soft key back on.

The patch that Seth supplied worked perfectly and re-enabled wireless automatically when turning wireless off and then on using both the wireless hard switch and wireless soft key.