On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 12:17 +0200, Helmut Schaa wrote: > Hi, > > NetworkManager reports the current killswitch state as a global flag > (WirelessHardwareEnabled). Shouldn't this state be tied to the wireless > device instead?
No, per type. WLAN has a killswitch, WWAN has a killswitch, BT has a killswitch. > Just tried the following: internal iwl4965 + external ath5k. When using the > killswitch to deactivate the iwl4965 the ath5k will also be deactivated as > NetworkManager assumes that the killswitch affects all wireless cards but > that is simply not true :) Expected behavior. If you don't want to kill any wireless, don't flip the switch. I don't see real use-cases where you'd want to rfkill one card but not others; the people that want to do this can un-manage the device, and set SIOCSIWTXPOW to off if they care that much about killing individual devices. Furthermore, on laptops with soft killswitches, what device does the soft killswitch kill? Everything? Or just one? This is a total bikeshed topic that just keeps going around and around and around. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list