I have a ProX 15 AMD laptop and it has been running nicely using various Linux distribtutions; at the moment I am running Linux Mint, kernel 6.8.0-86-generic. But a few days ago the WiFi suddenly stopped working. WiFi is enabled in BIOS, and all the updates have been installed. I googled around and tried a few diagnosis commands. The following looks interesting: 

$ rfkill list

0: hci0: Bluetooth

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: no

1: phy0: Wireless LAN

    Soft blocked: no

    Hard blocked: yes

WiFi hard blocked may indicate that the physical WiFi kill button is pressed; the only problem is that this type of laptop does not have a physical WiFi kill button. 

Also:

$ dmesg | grep iwlwifi

[    3.471640] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)

[    3.477461] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected crf-id 0x3617, cnv-id 0x100530 wfpm id 0x80000000

[    3.477510] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: PCI dev 2723/0084, rev=0x340, rfid=0x10a100

[    3.483313] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: TLV_FW_FSEQ_VERSION: FSEQ Version: 89.3.35.37

[    3.483821] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: loaded firmware version 77.b405f9d4.0 cc-a0-77.ucode op_mode iwlmvm

[    3.712198] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Wi-Fi 6 AX200 160MHz, REV=0x340

[    3.720961] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)

[    3.839866] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: Detected RF HR B3, rfid=0x10a100

[    3.905911] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: base HW address: 14:85:7f:0c:8e:e7

[    4.111427] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0: timeout waiting for FW reset ACK (inta_hw=0x4)

[    5.919852] iwlwifi 0000:03:00.0 wlp3s0: renamed from wlan0

What does it actually mean that iwlwifi is reporting RF_KILL (radio disabled)? 

All in all, how can this laptop end up with WiFi hard blocked in the first place? How can I unblock it?

Best regards,

Jan W