I too have this bug, and have seen it happen on two different hardware
revisions of the ideapad S10-3. One has a broadcom wireless chipset and
one is the newest revision, 06472BU with combination bluetooth/atheros
wifi chipset. Play with the wireless switch too much and it will show up
in rfkill under linux as being hard blocked, and the bluetooth doesn't
appear at all. However, I found a couple ways of working around this.
One is via removing the CMOS battery as shown above, and another
involves having the laptop dual-boot Windows (I have Win7 32-bit on
mine) and using the "Lenovo Energy Management" utility available here:

http://consumersupport.lenovo.com/ot/en/DriversDownLoads/Drivers_Show_2362.html

Pressing fn-F5 with this utility installed brings up a wireless switch with 
separate on/off settings for WiFi and Bluetooth - and toggling them to "ON" in 
Windows also makes them work again in Linux. Now, someone with more skill and 
motivation than me might go and look at this utility in a debugger and see 
exactly what it is doing, whether it is doing something ACPI-related or poking 
some register.
Just thought I'd offer this up as a starting point for developers.

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Title:
  Wireless and Bluetooth switch does not work correctly on lenovo ideapad s10-3

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