After some googling, I found that rfkill might be the thing I need - and there is an rkill package in Mageia, which I installed. But there is only a partial success:
- - rfkill list correctly prints a list of wireless devices and their status
- - when I - on a running system - switch the wireless switch to "on", the status of "hardware blocked" status goes from "on" to "off"
- -when I do: "rfkill unblock 0" (0 is the index of the wlan obtained by rfkill list) also the "software blocked" status goes from "on" to "off".
Does somebody have experience with rfkill? Probably some additional action needs to be configured in order to activate WLAN in the system when it is switched on. In case it is not a simple configuration question or a user-error, is this a thing to be pursued in the testing process of Mageia?