i have a button on my old hp dm1 that you can press to turn wifi on and off, it had issues in windows, it seemed to worked fine on trueos, for the short time i used it, but i think its causing problems in linux.it seems like it wants to work, it has a LED to indicate its status which properly toggles when i press the button, and gnome even puts a little airplane mode icon in the system tray when the wifi is set to be disabled.whenever i boot the switch resets to off so i turn it on, go to the network manager in the task bar, and click the wifi slider from off to on and fractions of a second later it just goes back to off again, i tested on 3 vastly different distros and its all about the same, any ideas?
hp dm1 hardware wifi switch causes problems
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