Plugging In Iphone Disables Wifi

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[member=5916]trinidad[/member] Thank you for the reply!!!

I appreciate the Bluetooth advice.  I will definitely try and implement that in the future.

Here are the results of your terminal queries:

Code:

sudo iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.

enp9s0    no wireless extensions.

wlan0    IEEE 802.11  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated  Tx-Power=off 
          Retry short limit:7  RTS thr:off  Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
         

Code:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 IEEE 802.11 down

IEEE: Host name lookup failure
ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information.

Code:

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Operation not possible due to RF-kill

As you can see I entered it wrong the first time.  But I do believe that it was entered in correctly the second time, using "wlan0."
If I did not enter it correctly let me know.

"operation not possible due to RF-kill?"  So are you saying that hooking up my iphone installed RF-Kill on my LL laptop?
Is RF-Kill an installed application on Ubuntu based Linux distros?
If it's Apple that's pretty screwy if you ask me.  I have used this program for something in the past.  But it has been years ago.

What are my options here?