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Airplane mode is a setting available on most cell phones, smartphones and other electronic devices that, when engaged, suspends many of the device's signal transmitting functions.

Airplane mode is a setting available on most cell phones, smartphones and other electronic devices that, when engaged, suspends many of the device's signal transmitting functions.

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Why does "Airplane Mode" keep toggling on my HP laptop in Ubuntu 18.04?

I have an HP Spectre x360 convertible laptop and I'm running Ubuntu 18.04. Every time I turn the screen sideways or in tablet mode and back, 'Airplane Mode' is activated. In fact, when I boot up and login, I have to manually turn off 'Airplane Mode'…
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Cannot disable Airplane Mode

When I use gnome network manager it indicates that wireless is disabled by hardware switch while it is not. Even in windows I can not turn on my wireless!
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Enters airplane mode after suspend / resume, can't toggle it

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,…
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Wifi Hard Blocked After Suspend in Ubuntu on GS65

While GS65's wifi module, Killer 1550i(which is roughly Intel 9560), doesn't supported in \~4.17 kernels, I managed to get the wifi working by compiling latest iwlwifi kernel module and including them. But when I recover from the suspend, the wifi…
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Airplane mode turns on when I turn off Wi-Fi

I'm using Ubuntu GNOME 16.04. Whenever I turn OFF Wi-Fi (Bluetooth being off), Airplane Mode turns ON automatically. If I turn OFF Airplane Mode, it automatically turns Bluetooth ON (even though Bluetooth was OFF earlier). Any ideas what is causing…
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why airplane mode turns on automatically?

I am using Ubuntu 20.10 on a fujitsu T901 laptop. Ubuntu automatically activates airplane mode and therefore wifi turns off and connection gets lost. there is no obvious pattern that I could understand but every now and then it happens. I have…
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Wifi Hardware Switch Not Working on HP Pavilion 15-n201nr Notebook PC - Hardware Blocked

I have an HP Pavilion 15-n201nr Notebook PC which appears to be stuck in airplane mode under any version of Linux I install. (I have tried Ubuntu 19.04, 18.04, and Fedora Workstation 30.) This is definitely not a hardware issue as Windows 10 is also…
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Prevent airplane mode from turning on when lid is closed in ubuntu gnome 17.04

None of the methods described in the link work Prevent wireless from turning off when lid goes down Power management from iwconfig is OFF. Any suggestions, what else can be done?
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Create a shortcut key to toggle Airplane Mode On/Off

I want to create a shortcut key that toggles Airplane Mode On/Off, but do not know what command to use. To create a shortcut I go to Settings> Keyboard> Shortcuts and then specify a command to be run whenever a given accelerator (shortcut key) is…
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Airplane mode toggling when switching to tablet mode (HP spectre x360)

On Ubuntu 22.10 (hence kernel 5.19, gnome 43.1) HP Spectre x360 2-in-1 16-f1xxx, i7-12700H, Iris XE (ADL GT2) When switching between laptop and tablet mode, the airplane mode automatically toggles. Expected behaviour: No link between tablet mode and…
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how to prevent airplane mode from turning on when I turn off wifi?

When I turn off wifi on ubuntu 20.04, the airplane mode turns on, and when I turn it off, the bluetooth turns on, is this a bug or what? I also had same behaviour in 18.04 I want to have the behaviour of turning on/off only the corresponding option…
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Can not reenable Bluetooth from System Settings after disabling Airplane mode

After deactivating Airplane Mode, I can not re-enable Bluetooth from System Settings. I would like Bluetooth to be reactivated from System Settings: When Airplane Mode is deactivated Or, when I click the Bluetooth toggle button in the header…
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How can I disable Bluetooth automatically everytime I turn OFF Airplane Mode?

I am using Ubuntu 18.04. I never use the Bluetooth so I always turn it off. That means: if I disable wifi the device goes into Airplane Mode. I get that it makes sense to turn on Airplane Mode when wifi and Bluetooth are off. The problem is: When I…
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Airplane mode switch does not respond

HP Envy 15 x360 PC running Ubuntu 17.10 shows airplane mode ON and grayed out despite all the efforts. (fn+f12) does not work. Wifi/bluetooth are off and cannot be switched on using menus. More details: se@se-hp:~$ nmcli radio wifi on se@se-hp:~$ …
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Airplane mode on by default GNOME

Whenever I start up GNOME, airplane mode is on by default regardless of whether I turned it off since shutting down. I've looked through all the forums and have only seen solutions related to rfkill unblocking, even though nothing is blocked as seen…
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