Re: nmcli radio off connected to ModemManager power state low

[Aleksander Morgado <aleksander aleksander es>]

On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> > making some changes in ModemManager "set power state", I observed
> > that setting
> > setting a radio interface to OFF with nmcli, the ModemManager power
> > state
> > triggered is the LOW one, while I expected it to be the OFF one. Is
> > that
> > correct? If that so, is there a way to set the modem in OFF power
> > state
> > through network manager?
>
> There are two things that 'nmcli r wwan off' does:
>
> 1) attempts to set any kernel rfkill WWAN switches to "blocked"
> 2) disables the modem with ModemManager, which sets low power state

Minor comment: 2) disables the modem with ModemManager
(mm_modem_disable()), *and* then sets low power state
(mm_modem_set_power_state (LOW)). These are 2 different steps done by
NM; just disabling doesn't set it in low-power state.

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