Wifi disabled by hardware switch

You may find yourself locked out of a laptop BIOS and need to enable the wifi / lan or bluetooth. Hopefully this can help.

type: rfkill list

this will show which devices are currently blocked / disabled

type: rfkill unblock <ID>

where <ID> is the number of the device you want to unblock

eg: rfkill unblock 2
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