Maybe the necessity to disable and re-enable NM in order to reactivate wireless connections once the devices have been unblocked is a bug of its own.
Here's some more interesting output: sudo rfkill event # initially: 1341508858.670966: idx 0 type 1 op 0 soft 0 hard 0 1341508858.671014: idx 1 type 2 op 0 soft 1 hard 0 1341508858.671024: idx 2 type 1 op 0 soft 0 hard 0 # hardware switch-off: 1341508862.464313: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 1 1341508862.469270: idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 1 1341508862.469312: idx 1 type 2 op 2 soft 1 hard 1 # hardware switch-on: 1341508892.690015: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 1341508892.696960: idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 1341508892.698356: idx 1 type 2 op 2 soft 1 hard 0 # NM wireless off: 1341508921.532916: idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0 1341508921.533245: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 1 1341508921.534261: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 1 # rfkill unblock 0 1341508991.084537: idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 1341508991.084750: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 1 hard 0 # NM disable, NM enable, NM wireless on: 1341509044.899252: idx 0 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 1341509044.899303: idx 2 type 1 op 2 soft 0 hard 0 Whatever the reason may be for the duplicate event of turning device "phy0" into state soft blocked/hard blocked, the notable difference is the result after switching off : Hardware switch-off: 0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes ... 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes NM switch-off: 0: sony-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no ... 2: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes Probably the contradicting values of sony-wifi and phy0 caused by NM serve as an explanation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1001998 Title: Wireless Switch doesn't recover wireless To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/network-manager/+bug/1001998/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs