Hi Dan, list Back in Feb 2010, there was mention of NM learning to use rfkill when it brings down a wlan device. Has that happened, or is it likely to happen? I am thinking of http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-February/msg00185.html
Some background to the question... On our F11 release series, we found out that (a) NM reads rfkill status, but does not set it, and that (b) we save significant power by rfkill'ing the wlan when the user requests that it's switched off. To get those power savings, we ended up using some very ugly code external to NM. So we would love to have NM use rfkill when users request that wireless or network be switched off. It'd mean we can drop lots of ugly code. It'd also mean that NM users get significant power savings on other machines too :-) We are currently working on a new F14-based release (F14 ships NM-0.8.1) -- and nowish would be a great time to get rid of the crud code :-) We are tracking this in http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10575 ... cheers, m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
