Comment 1 for bug 773152

manually disabling the killswitch with `sudo rfkill unblock wifi` leads to the device being unblocked, but it is softblocked again instantly thereafter by radio killswitch. The wifi Fn-Key is not recognized and therefore triggers no action.

However, with an infinite loop that constantly unblocks the device, I achieved some sort of (messy) workaround, that gave me a (very unstable) wireless connection, so I am able to post this comment:

sudo `while true; do echo 0 > /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill1/soft; done`