Re: [patch] 'Start All Wireless Devices' bug fix

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Robert Love <rml novell com>:

> On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 09:47 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 
> > Would this explain why the 0.3.5 Network Discovery options seem
> > flakey?  I haven't actually looked at the code, but even when I set it
> > to Never Search it still seems to search..  And the option _feels_
> > like it doesn't stick across reboots (even though the checkbox remains
> > set).
> 
> No, this is unrelated code, I think.
> 
> But I do see what you are talking about: it seems to me that NM is
> always scanning, or at least displaying the results of a previous scan.
> 
> One thing we did in Netapplet was actually turn off wireless altogether
> (and thus not scan) when on wired, if for no other reason than
> conserving battery life.

Well, in this case I'm on a wireless network, but I still want to turn off
scanning -- when it scans I lose connectivity for 10 seconds.  Unfortunately
the code in 0.3.5 doesn't appear to work.

> 	Robert Love

-derek
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