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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:19 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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.

Ok, a bug, and we need to fix it.

Dan