Comment 11 for bug 823615
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| Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote Re: network-manager doesn't reconnect to wireless networks after rfkill blocks removed | #11 |
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Well, NM indeed doesn't seem to always come up when dealing with soft blocks, but Fn-F7 works fine here for stopping and restarting wireless (but thats a hard block on dell-wifi). I have multiple killswitches registered: phy0 and dell-wifi for wifi. A soft block for phy0 shows the device disconnected and not able to bring up interfaces. Soft block for dell-wireless puts the device in "not ready" state which turns it unusable until you enable/disable wifi using the applet.
As such, I think it's worth noting this as affecting linux anyway: the Eeepc's drivers don't properly handle the soft killswitch event: they really should be causing a hard block, not a soft one (and without checking, it might be a soft one as a workaround in userland somewhere). This would need a separate bug, Jeff or Seth, care to open one against linux for the eeepc drivers?