[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 01:24:33PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote: >> 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; > > Here's a real use-case: on my wife's laptop, the integrated wifi is > misfunctionning. (It sees network but can only intermitently connect to > them. It just happened one day, I am sure it is an hardware problem on > this four year old computer.) We bought an USB dongle to have a reliable > wifi. It would be nice to stop the integrated card in order to save > battery time. > > That was a real case, I can imagine other cases where the integrated > device doesn't have the good protocols (maybe it doesn't do g or n wifi > networks), doesn't have the correct range, doesn't have the correct MAC > address to be accepted by the router, and where one would like to use an > external wifi card without the first one sucking power. > > Well, anyway, it sure is'nt a priority...
Why not blacklist the driver for the defunct device? Larry _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
