Yes youre right the switch is faulty.
On Thu, 15 May 2025, Max Nikulin wrote:
Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 09:54:50 +0700
From: Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dell wifi switch
Resent-Date: Thu, 15 May 2025 02:55:21 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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.
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