updated Netbook to Lucid -- NetworkManager is disabled

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Thursday 25 March 2010 5:43:18 am Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 March 2010 22:46:33 Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 March 2010 2:52:25 pm Daniel Chen wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> 
wrote:
> > > > was false instead of true in there, yeah.  I suspect on mine it's
> > > > because I hit the rfkill button.  Rebooting should reset the rfkill
> > > > button (it used to) but it appears not to.
> > > 
> > > Please file a regression-potential tagged bug against linux so that we
> > > can fix it.
> > 
> > Sorry, bad phrasing.  The wireless adapter itself goes back to working
> > after  reboot, but because NetworkManager ignores that NM was disabled by
> > the rfkill being pressed and just assumes it's globally disabled, the
> > result (to an end user who doesn't know to use ifup) is like it stays
> > disabled across reboots.
> 
> Hm, you mean that network manager doesn't pick up you're wifi adapter being
> available again? Can you reproduce the same with GNOME's nm-applet and
> maybe the Plasmoid? I've been testing the hotplugging and rfkilling pretty
> extensively, and it works just fine here.

Yeah, I'll have to do a bit more testing, but the boot where it suddenly had 
"enabled=false" was the one immediately after I'd rfkill'd* so I was 
hypothesizing that upon rfkill hitting, it wrote that "false" to the file.  
Could also just be a coincidence.

* I didn't bring rf back on before shutting down because, well... that has 
never worked on this laptop.  Reboot's always how I've done it.

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Mackenzie Morgan
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