Re: Prevent auto scan in wireless devices

[Marc Herbert <Marc Herbert gmail com>]

Dan Williams wrote :
> There are always mechanisms to turn off the card if you don't have a
> hardware switch; [...]  The third is to mark the
> connection as not managed by NetworkManager during the time that you
> want the wifi to be "off".

This third possibility looks cool.

It looks like a way to get rid of this scanning thing, at least for the disconnected case; the most important case.

Is this/could this be only one NetworkManager-click away? I mean a button like: "Disable wireless - really" <whining>I do not want to write any more scripts...</whining>


PS: I finally caught up and read all the messages about this problem; I now promise not to spam the list for a while.

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