Just to be clear, we've had discussions about whether or not Wi-Fi should be enabled by default on a bootstrap install.
My opinion on this is that it should *not* be enabled by default as without user intervention, it's not going to automatically connect anyways and thus will just chew up battery. Also, if Wi-Fi is enabled, but not connected to an AP, there's no indication of this on the status bar, so a user will be unaware of this unless they open up the indicator network-menu ( see bug #1287210 ). That said, if Wi-Fi was enabled and an update caused it to become disabled, that's certainly a bug. Finally, I realize having Wi-Fi enabled after a device flash is useful for testing. We discussed enhancing 'phablet-network' to have the smarts to be able to enable Wi-Fi when provisioning a device which would solve the testing issue in theory. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319906 Title: indicator-network show wifi disabled on a bootstrap install or ota update on 31 Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Indicator network shows wifi disabled on a fresh bootstrapped install or on an ota update. Enabling the wifi will aloow it to search and connect to a new network. On reboot wifi is disabled again on manta and flo but not on mako by the look of it. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10 Package: network-manager 0.9.8.8-0ubuntu10 Uname: Linux 3.4.0-5-mako armv7l ApportVersion: 2.14.2-0ubuntu3 Architecture: armhf CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'iw' Date: Thu May 15 15:38:10 2014 IfupdownConfig: # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8) # Include files from /etc/network/interfaces.d: source-directory /etc/network/interfaces.d InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-05-15 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu Utopic Unicorn (development branch) - armhf (20140515.1) IpRoute: default via 10.86.112.74 dev rmnet_usb0 proto static 10.86.112.0/24 dev rmnet_usb0 proto kernel scope link src 10.86.112.73 metric 13 NetworkManager.state: [main] NetworkingEnabled=true WirelessEnabled=true WWANEnabled=true WimaxEnabled=true PciNetwork: SourcePackage: network-manager UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) mtime.conffile..etc.dbus.1.system.d.org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.conf: 2014-05-15T09:58:23 nmcli-con: NAME UUID TYPE TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY DBUS-PATH /234308403223936/context3 00f83d8b-6636-7d5d-3266-70a1176b7bff gsm 0 never yes yes /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/1 /234308403223936/context1 a12a5a56-2d89-315e-38b0-9d3e8d4fe0e5 gsm 1400168303 Thu 15 May 2014 03:38:23 PM UTC yes yes /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0 nmcli-dev: DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH /ril_0 gsm connected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/1 wlan0 802-11-wireless disconnected /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0 nmcli-nm: RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN running 0.9.8.8 connected enabled enabled enabled enabled enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1319906/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
