On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 17:32 -0400, John Mahoney wrote: > It has already been fixed, but most distos have not picked up the > change yet. Read this thread for a better understanding and a > workaround which sends a dbus command to nm during init. > > > http://old.nabble.com/nm-applet-to25936866.html#a25936866 > PERFECT! I don't even want it to remember my last setting. I want it OFF when it comes up. I stuffed that dbus trick into my profile so we shall see. Seems to work, but I'm already logged in. > Hopefully, It will be standard soon. > Concur. > -- > John Many thanks! Regards, Mike > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Michael H. Warfield > <mhw wittsend com> wrote: > Hey all, > > Pop question. This is one of my burning annoyances with > NetworkManager > and maybe there's an easy way to do this and I just can't find > it. > But... How do I disable wireless networking by default. I > can disable > it but, the next time I log in, it's enabled again. I want it > stone > cold dead unless I overtly and explicitly choose to enabled it > and then > I want it off if I log out and log back in again. > > The problem is that I work in an environment that is very rich > in IPv6 > support, at home and at work and on the road and at my > colocation > facility. I have v6 everywhere. The problem is that NM > brings up wlan0 > long after eth0 has been up and then the wlan0 interface gets > hit with a > new RA (router advertisement) which then causes all the v6 > traffic to be > routed out through the wireless WHICH I DO NOT WANT even > though the v4 > default route is out eth0. Because wlan0 gets the RA later > than the > eth0 address in response to its RD (router discovery) request, > it has a > later expiration time on the routes so it gets preference over > the eth0 > interface. This is by design. It's the way v6 is suppose to > work and > is how you renumber autoconfed v6 networks. But is screws me > over > royally when I'm in a situation where I've got a hard wired > network > connection and the wireless is less than stable and keeps > screwing up > all my v6 connections. Disabling it after logging in is > useless because > it has already brought it up and loaded the v6 routes with a > new default > and that then just breaks things. > > I want wireless off and to STAY OFF unless I want it on and > know that I > want it on. But I can't find a sticky setting that basically > tells it > to play dead and STAY DEAD. (The wireless "switch" on my > laptop only > switches the bluetooth, unfortunately). > > Mike > -- > Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | > mhw WittsEnd com > /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | > http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ > NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in > the best of all > PGP Key: 0x674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is > sure of it! > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > NetworkManager-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list > > > -- Michael H. Warfield (AI4NB) | (770) 985-6132 | mhw WittsEnd com /\/\|=mhw=|\/\/ | (678) 463-0932 | http://www.wittsend.com/mhw/ NIC whois: MHW9 | An optimist believes we live in the best of all PGP Key: 0x674627FF | possible worlds. A pessimist is sure of it!
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