On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Simon Geard <delga...@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 10:16 -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
> > Sounds like it would be good to just disable the switch, right?  From
> > what I gather, the switch signals the OS, which then runs code to
> > disable the wifi hardware, so overriding that is very possible.
>
> Depends on the machine. On some machines the switch just sends a signal
> to software; on others it physically turns off the wireless. In the
> latter case (including my laptop), there's nothing you can do, since
> it's all in hardware...
>
> Simon.
>
>
Well, actually in the case of the OP, the switch has nothing to do with the
PCMCIA card, and the card is still on, available and configurable by hand
(iwconfig, ifconfig) when the switch is off. It is just NM that decides to
disable all wireless possibility even if the switch concerns only the
internal card.

A partial solution was found by using connman (from intel AFAIK) which seems
to ignore the switch completely.

-- 
Cedric Pradalier
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