Ideapadu350 wlan HW switch no longer works

Hello

On my u350 aged 1 year Ideapd, the hardware to activate the wifi on/off switch is "a little" dead.

Sound is off now and I cannot turn it on again, when I switch, the small duct which must be turned on, is not, nor the network connects to just about anything. Windows reports that I need to activate the switch of hw, linux reported wifi disabled by rf-switch.

With the rfkill linux command, I can see, when you press the switch, that activates / turns off properly, windows some Popup screen shows as his permit, but it simply doesn't.

What can I do now?

-dan

So I solved the problem, just in case someone in the future runs into the same problem (found some hits from Google on the same subject, unresolved) here's how I fixed it.

There is no way, at least, I found none, the difficulty that under Linux, it seems to be an odd implementation by lenovo or the driver.

FN + f5 activates / deactivates softblock on Linux, while the fn + f5 toggle hardblock in windows or at least a sort of hardblock, blocked its although strong that the physical switch no longer works, so to fix this, windows startup, press fn + f5 and turn on wifi, it will work on Linux as well. Very odd behavior, windows SW settings override physical hw switch.

-dan

Tags: Lenovo Notebooks

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