The good news: There is a workaround: Installing Windows Vista/2008/7  (Windows 
XP/... does NOT work!), installing wlan driver + installing hotkey drivers, 
then pushing FN+F2 button on keyboard, to enable WLAN. Luckily the hardware 
remembers that the WLAN is switched even after reboots/power-off, and that way, 
it works with Linux.
So obviously, the hardware rf-kill is software/driver dependent, not really 
done in hardware.
I will try to figure out, which driver exactly does the rf-kill, and how it 
does it.

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  WLAN card cannot be activated, it is hard-rfkill-ed and fn-f2 does not
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