On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:48:28AM -0000, Kliment Yanev wrote: > Public bug reported: > > Binary package hint: network-manager > > Use case: > I tell network-manager to disable my wireless, expecting this to gain me some > battery life or because I am entering a no-radio zone (airplane, hospital > etc). My laptop has no hardware switch or led to indicate wireless status, so > I assume network-manager has switched it off > > Current behavior: > The radio interface is still active and the number of interrupts reported by > powertop for the ipw2200 driver goes up drastically. The "disabled" interface > thus uses more power and misleads the users. Using rf_kill manually disables > the radio and stops the interrupts, as expected. > > I am using 2.6.22 on gutsy with all updates. > > Proposed solution: > Make network-manager aware of rf_kill state and disable radio when wireless > is disabled.
OK, thanks for the report. maybe one of the next updates will help ... anyway, does your wireless setup in gutsy work with ipw2200 driver in general? What setup are you running? - Alexander -- network-manager does not really deactivate ipw2200 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/127711 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
