I figured out what exact steps to take to prevent the wlan0 from starting with the computer. Even when wlan0 won't start properly, the switch will toggle phy0 Hard blocked in the rfkill list. Like so:
1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: (yes/no) If I reboot the computer with it toggled to yes, then the hp-wifi Hard blocked is set to yes and I can't change it. Though if I toggle phy0 to no and reboot then the wifi starts fine and hp-wifi Hard blocked is set to no. I did a comparison of dmesg output for booting the computer in both scenarios. The only difference I could really see was the following line was in the dmesg log when the wifi worked: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready I'm attaching each dmesg log. (don't worry about the many lines of "hub 2-1:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5" in there. my usb port is going bad and it's causing a ton of those errors to appear.) ** Attachment added: "dmesg when wifi did not work" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/722664/+attachment/1872341/+files/bad_boot.log -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/722664 Title: wireless card does not start if computer booted with wireless card disabled -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
