Re: wifi working again. Is this a network manager bug?
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:23:34 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 23/07/12 00:20, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>> It was working this morning. I have an ASUS HE1000 EEE netbook. It
>> runs testing. Early this morning at home the wifi worked fine.
> [...]
>> I right-clicked on the icon with two terminals and a red box with an
>> white X, got a menu, and unchecked the option that enabled wireless.
> [...]
>> Later, back at home, I tried enabling wireless again. TO my sutprise,
>> the option had disappeared from the menu.
> I don't know the machine you are using, but does it have a hardware
> button or touch 'thing' to enable/disable wifi? My HP laptop has a sort
> of hardware touch control, and disabling wifi with network manager
> (which I guess is what you did) also turns the wifi card off so that I
> have to first use such hardware control.
>
> Lorenzo.
So temporarily disabling wifi with the network manager tells something in
the boot process that the wifi device is to be considered nonexistent?
Presumably that's something at BIOS level. Anyway, I managed to reboot
into the BIOS menu, and found that WLAN was indeed disabled. I enabled
it, and wifi is back.
Is it reasonable to consider it a bug that the network manager completely
disables the wifi to the extent that the device appears not to exist on
subsequent reboots, and that the network manager no longer has the menu
item so it can't restore it?
Or is the hardware such that the network manager couldn't restore it
after a reboot no matter how hard it tried? That seems far-fetched, but
possible.
-- hendrik
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