Eactly same beaviour as described above: Turning off the swicth in gnome-control-center turns off wifi in the panel and rfkill shows soft block. "sudo nmcli radio wifi" outputs disabled "sudo nmcli radio wifi on" enables wifi and turns the switch on (permits disabling wifi in power save)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1805025 Title: gnome-control-center power - 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' label is confusing Status in gnome-control-center: Fix Released Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: The 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' setting defaults to ON. Toggling 'Turn off Wi-Fi to save power' to OFF causes the wifi device to be soft blocked. BEFORE$ sudo rfkill list all 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no AFTER$ sudo rfkill list all 0: hci0: Bluetooth Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: no 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Release: 18.04 $ apt-cache policy gnome-control-center gnome-control-center: Installed: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Candidate: 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 Version table: *** 1:3.28.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1:3.28.1-0ubuntu1 500 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages Expected behavior: Power saving for wifi will be disabled. Actual behavior: Wifi is disabled. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1805025/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
