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  1. Bug #882779
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 882779

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Sourcerer (pg-futureware) wrote : Re: WLAN card cannot be activated, it is hard-rfkill-ed and fn-f2 does not work

The good news: There is a workaround: Installing Windows Vista/2008/7 (Windows XP/... does NOT work!), installing wlan driver + installing hotkey drivers, then pushing FN+F2 button on keyboard, to enable WLAN. Luckily the hardware remembers that the WLAN is switched even after reboots/power-off, and that way, it works with Linux.
So obviously, the hardware rf-kill is software/driver dependent, not really done in hardware.
I will try to figure out, which driver exactly does the rf-kill, and how it does it.