Re: wireless hardware disable switch forbids the use of external wifi cards

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 00:35 -0500, John Mahoney wrote:
> Aside from your NM feature request, I would suggest either a.
> blacklisting the the faulty wifi driver so the card does not load(as
> long as your other wifi card does not rely on the same driver) or
> b.physically remove the buggy wifi card from your computer if you are
> no longer using it.

That's the better option.

Dan

> --
> John
> 
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Robert Lazzurs <rob lazzurs net>
> wrote:
>         Hello,
>         
>         Would it not make more sense for the hardware switch to turn
>         all wireless devices off by default but then allow
>         NetworkManager to turn each device on if required, like an
>         override.
>         
>         The reason I suggest this is some people will expect that
>         hardware switch to turn off all radio equipment in the device
>         to compily with rules such as those on aircraft.
>         
>         IMHO of course, take care.
>         
>         
>                 On 13 Feb 2009, 12:54 AM, "Mikhail Zakharov"
>                 <mzakharo gmail com> wrote:
>                 
>                 Hi, I have a really bad internal wireless card. If I
>                 disable it and try
>                 to use an external PCIMCA card, the network manager
>                 will not let me do
>                 this since wireless option is automatically disabled
>                 based on the switch
>                 state. I was wondering whether anyone has noted this,
>                 since imho this is
>                 a serious issue. Why can't we have a per device
>                 control like in windows,
>                 where each network adaptor has its own set of
>                 enable/disable controls. A
>                 quick solution to this problem would be I think to
>                 revert to Nm 0.6
>                 behaviour, where hardware switch did not affect the
>                 software state and
>                 everything worked fine. If anyone has worked on a
>                 patch that does this,
>                 please let me know. Thanks, Mikhail
>                 
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