Re: NetworkManager and rf_kill

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 21:05 +0200, Khashayar Naderehvandi wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Khashayar Naderehvandi
> <khashayar lists gmail com> wrote:
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>                 I at least restored the previous behavior of marking
>                 the device down
>                 when wireless is disabled; svn r3666.  Again, most
>                 drivers should be
>                 entering low-power state when down, since you're not
>                 expected to be able
>                 to do much of anything in !IFF_UP state anyway,
>                 irregardless of any
>                 other setting of txpower.
>                 
>                 
> There is a slight problem with this on my machine. When deactivating
> wireless, the wifi device is put in low power state as expected. If I
> re-enable wireless, I usually won't get the list of access points
> back. I've tried waiting for at least a couple of minutes, but the
> WLAN list remains empty until I open a terminal and issue an "iwlist
> scan". The command lists available APs, and after a moment
> network-manager-applet shows them as well.

Ok, that's an NM problem then.  Will look into it.  We need to ensure
that a scan or two is scheduled right after the wireless is re-enabled.

Dan