Airplane mode keeps turning on/off, Bluetooth keeps showing that it's off and bluetooth not found

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Hi.
I’m quite new to Fedora and to Linux based systems. I’m using my old ASUS UX305L. Been using Fedora for 2 months now and everything has been fine so far. I upgraded to Fedora 41 last week or so.

Suddenly today I have been getting a problem where airplane mode keeps turning on and off by itself every time I boot the laptop. When I press the designated key on my keyboard which turns it on/off, it stops the jumping around. That’s a one problem.

The other problem is that my bluetooth keeps saying that it is off to that I don’t even have a bluetooth. It all started with bluetooth just suddenly stopping and even my USB ports didn’t work anymore. After reboot USB ports worked, but BT is acting weird + airplane mode.

After I upgraded to F41 from F40, when I do dnf upgrade then in few places I get message “checksum doesn’t match”

Would be thankful for any help. I already tried googling, but didn’t seem to find a decent solution.

Update v1: It seems like my headphones SONY wh-1000xm4 causes the problem where it switches between audio profiles A2DP & Handsfree. When it does that, the whole system freezes for a sec and then USB ports stop working as well as BT. When I don’t connect them, everything seems fine.

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I would suggest:

1.) temporarily create a new user and see whether you experience the same problem
2.) boot an older kernel from the grub menu (hold shift after reboot to display grub menu, in case you are using auto-hide feature (default on single-OS Fedora machines))
3.) check your logs to learn what’s going on and potentially report a bug so devs or maintainers can take a look at the issue.

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Hey man!

Thanks for the reply. But while I was waiting for someone to reply I found a solution that actually worked. stackoverflow.com the comment where it says to turn off FastBoot in BIOS settings.

Worked instantly.

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