On 14/05/2025 10:15, xuser wrote:
Its a latitude e6500, and yes it has an hard switch on the side
In the past I had an ASUS laptop where the "hardware" switch, the LED,
and the actual WiFi card were living their independent lives. The switch
generated state change events, but I did not find a way to query its
current state. I have no idea if it was a hardware issue or a platform
driver one.
First question is what is the actual issue? Does WiFi work and the
problem is specific to the switch?
What do boot logs say concerning detected input devices? Likely some
libinput tool may report the list of known devices as well.
Do new log entries appear in response to switch state change?
The switch may be handled by firmware or it may be responsibility of
desktop environment.
After all, "Dell" may be a more important keyword than "Debian" to
search for.
