The wifi switch on my dell laptop is not working after installing debian.

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On 5/12/25 19:31, xuser wrote:

The wifi switch on my dell laptop is not working after installing debian.

Are you looking for help or just want to let everyone know that you are disappointed?

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On 12.05.2025 19:40 Uhr xuser wrote:

The wifi switch on my dell laptop is not working after installing
debian.

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Not detected by xev at all or no action, but detected by xev?

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I just want it to work

On Mon, 12 May 2025, Greg wrote:

Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 20:32:56 +0200
From: Greg <pld@sojka.co>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dell wifi switch
Resent-Date: Mon, 12 May 2025 18:33:22 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On 5/12/25 19:31, xuser wrote:

The wifi switch on my dell laptop is not working after installing debian.

Are you looking for help or just want to let everyone know that you are disappointed?

xuser@sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

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On 5/13/25 04:44, xuser wrote:

I just want it to work

You need to provide us more details, there are no "universal
suggestions". Is the wifi adapter recognized by the kernel, what version
of Debian do you use, do you know how to test it...

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On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Greg wrote:

On 5/13/25 04:44, xuser wrote:

I just want it to work

You need to provide us more details, there are no "universal suggestions".
Is the wifi adapter recognized by the kernel, what version of Debian do you use, do you know how to test it...

...and even more: is this a mechanical switch (uncommon for "newer"
laptops -- i.e. post-2000 or something) or some keyboard hotkey...

Cheers
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Its a latitude e6500, and yes it has an hard switch on the side
The wireless card is an Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
It is supported

On Tue, 13 May 2025, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 13:38:10 +0200
From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Greg <pld@sojka.co>
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Dell wifi switch
Resent-Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 11:38:26 +0000 (UTC)
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 01:35:05PM +0200, Greg wrote:

On 5/13/25 04:44, xuser wrote:

I just want it to work

You need to provide us more details, there are no "universal suggestions". >> Is the wifi adapter recognized by the kernel, what version of Debian do you >> use, do you know how to test it...

...and even more: is this a mechanical switch (uncommon for "newer"
laptops -- i.e. post-2000 or something) or some keyboard hotkey...

Cheers
--
t

xuser@sdf.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org

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On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 03:15:16AM +0000, xuser wrote:

Its a latitude e6500, and yes it has an hard switch on the side
The wireless card is an Intel(R) WiFi Link 5100 AGN
It is supported

Hm. I once had a Thinkpad X with a hard switch where that one
mechanically failed. That ended up with a motherboard change.

Have you tried with another OS (e.g. a live distro off a stick),
to rule out that?

Coming from the other side: what does "sudo rfkill" say?

(Compare that other thread in this mailing list).

Cheers
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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 <manikulin@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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