Public bug reported:
My laptop (compaq nx9030) has a small button on the edge that allows the
user to enable/disable the wireless. There is a little LED light above
it that is supposed to reflect the state of this button. It doesn't,
it's off all the time.
Wishlist: make the light reflect the state of the button
Long story:
Normally, I wouldn't mind, however, I found that after I accidentally bumped
this little button (and forgot about it), my wifi dropped out. After spending
an hour trying to figure out why knetworkmanager "randomly" decided not to see
my wifi card after months of proper behavior, I found a bugreport asking
someone to check /var/log/daemon.log
Being curious as to what my daemon.log said, I ran
$ cat /var/log/daemon.log
And lo and behold I find the last two lines say:
Jul 25 12:57:11 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info> User request to enable
wireless overridden by radio killswitch.
Jul 25 12:57:17 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info> User request to enable
wireless overridden by radio killswitch.
Thought:
"Oh, yeah, I must have bumped that a minute before my wifi died!"
*presses button again*
And presto, my wifi works fine again.
$ cat /var/log/daemon.log
Jul 25 12:57:46 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now enabled by
radio killswitch
If that light worked normally, I probably would have noticed that it was off
when I was having trouble.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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radio killswitch light does not reflect killswitch state
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251933
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