Comment 31 for bug 360905

@Andy

The hard switch didn't work in 8.10 either like that, so I think that's more of a feature request than a bug. FYI, if you accidentally had it hard switched off and booted that way, you can open a console and rmmod the driver and modprobe it back in. In my case (for the T61's intel wireless) the sequence is:
sudo rmmod iwlagn
sudo modprobe iwlagn
And then Network Manager will pick up the device after a few seconds and if you have an autoconnect profile, it will attempt to autoconnect.

@rinosarus

Were you able to follow the instructions above to test the patch?