You really bring up two separate issues. 1. Wireless connection stays active when a wired connection is made.
This has been brought up on the Network Manager mailing list multiple times as this behavior is a change from the way NetworkManager 0.6.x worked. There's a real reluctance on the part of upstream to changing this. Personally, I agree with you and would like to see this changed, however until we can convince upstream, this won't get fixed. 2. Create an option to automatically disable / power down wireless when connection switched to wired. If we were to convince upstream that #1 should be fixed, I still don't follow why you'd want to automatically *disable* / power down wireless when a wired connection is made. Usually when I have an Ethernet cable plugged into my laptop, I also have a power cable plugged in too. In the rare case that I don't, and I really want to save power, then I would manually turn off the radios ( note this also requires a wireless driver with working rfkill support ). Two other problems I see with this are the fact that Network Manager really doesn't have a Preferences mechanism, and even if it did, how would you explain this setting to a non-technical user? I'm going to mark this WontFix per the above reasons... -- needs option to disable wireless when on wired network https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/390564 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
