I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS on an MSI GS65 Stealth Thin w/ a Nvidia Geforce 1070, and when I close the lid to suspend, and reopen the lid to resume, it often enters "airplane" mode and I don't see any way to turn it back on.
In the settings menu, it says "Use hardware switch to turn off". When I hit the Fn key + the airplane key above F10 on the MSI keyboard, nothing seems to happen.
In the wifi settings it's turned off, and turning the button on doesn't have any effect.
I tried running rfkill list all
and it returned:
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: yes
Any tips on how to debug/fix this?
Best Answer
I was able to workaround it using @Gibbsoft's answer in Wifi Hard Blocked After Suspend in Ubuntu on GS65.
Update
/etc/default/grub
with:GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="acpi_osi=! acpi_osi='Windows 2009' quiet splash"
And now after resuming,
fn
+f10
takes it out of airplane mode and removes the hard block on the wifi driver.