Re: NetworkManager should report killswitch state per device

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam sbcglobal net>]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 20:01 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> Eric Brunet lps ens fr wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:24:33PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> Expected behavior.  If you don't want to kill any wireless, don't flip
> >> the switch.  I don't see real use-cases where you'd want to rfkill one
> >> card but not others;
> > 
> > Here's a real use-case: on my wife's laptop, the integrated wifi is
> > misfunctionning. (It sees network but can only intermitently connect to
> > them. It just happened one day, I am sure it is an hardware problem on
> > this four year old computer.) We bought an USB dongle to have a reliable
> > wifi. It would be nice to stop the integrated card in order to save
> > battery time.
> > 
> > That was a real case, I can imagine other cases where the integrated
> > device doesn't have the good protocols (maybe it doesn't do g or n wifi
> > networks), doesn't have the correct range, doesn't have the correct MAC
> > address to be accepted by the router, and where one would like to use an
> > external wifi card without the first one sucking power.
> > 
> > Well, anyway, it sure is'nt a priority...
> 
> Why not blacklist the driver for the defunct device?
> 
> Larry
I have to ask. How do you blacklist a driver?
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