Public bug reported:
When disabling wireless networking in the network manager applet, the
rfkill switch for the wireless card should be triggered.
For two reasons:
1) No sense drawing power for the transmitter if the user does not want to use
wireless.
2) On some systems (eg. EeePC) there is no hw switch, so disabling the wireless
connectivity should kill all wireless activity.
Furthermore due to 2) all wireless drivers should initialize with rfkill
enabled and wait for NM to enable wireless communications. Otherwise
booting a device without a hw switch on a plane could cause problems.
(So this affects NM and the kernel as well). Perhaps this should be a
configuration option: default to on, default to off, default to last
status.
Thanks,
Dominik
** Affects: network-manager-applet (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Disabling wireless connection should trigger rfkill
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365052
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