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tleyden
Asked: 2018-12-11 18:12:38 +0800 CST

Enters airplane mode after suspend / resume, can't toggle it

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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.

Settings

In the wifi settings it's turned off, and turning the button on doesn't have any effect.

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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?

wireless suspend airplane-mode

2 Answers

  1. 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.

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  2. In addition you can also change settings for the laptop to hibernate instead of suspend. As mentioned on this website: To avoid the hard block airplane mode you can change settings for the laptop to go into hibernate instead of suspend (you need to enable hibernate first):

    In the file "/etc/systemd/logind.conf" Change the following lines from "suspend" to "hibernate": HandleSuspendKey=hibernate HandleLidSwitch=hibernate

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