On Saturday 17 of September 2011 00:26:32 Timothy Murphy wrote: > Timothy Murphy wrote: > > I'm running NetworkManager 0.9.0-1.fc15 under Fedora-15 > > with kernel 2.6.40-4.fc5.i686.PAE on a ThinkPad T63. > > > > When I hover over the NM icon in the panel I am told > > "Disconnected Wireless disabled in software". > > OK, I found the problem was that NM had written > "WirelessEnabled=false" in /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state > for some reason; > and re-booting did not change this entry. > > Also I noticed that /var/log/messages did contain an entry about this: > ----------------------------------- > Sep 16 23:32:32 blanche NetworkManager[730]: <info> > WiFi enabled by radio killswitch; disabled by state file > ----------------------------------- > > But how many people would know what the "state file" is? > (I certainly didn't.) > Why not say "by the file /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state"? > /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state state is not meant to be changed by users directly. It's used internally by NM to store user configuration of wireless enable/disable state, so that it is persistant. I.e. when user right-click nm- applet and unchecks "Enable wireless" and then reboots, wireless should stay disabled.
> Also, could NM please stop saying "reason: 2"; > if the reason is know why not tell us what it is!! The reason codes are mainly meant for debugging and can be found at http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/include/NetworkManager.h?id=e30287aa84c30454b97f630d86029cdd68086ead#n276 They was a change recently that enabled printing reason string instead of a code number, though. Probably, that's not done on disconnecting as well. Jirka _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
