Andrew, Judging from the on-line documentation, the HP dv9297ea has a wireless button on the front panel, which should turn off all the laptop radio devices.
The question is, will Linux completely boot, while the wireless radio is turned off using this switch? -- CPU soft lockup during bootup https://launchpad.net/bugs/63418 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
