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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:10 -0400, Robert Love wrote:
> 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.

The solution to this one then is to turn off the wireless card when
"Never Search" is selected and we're on a wired link, like netapplet.

Dan