We've discussed this with upstream and there's resistance to fixing
this.
It's a known fact that the rfkill sub-system has been broken until very
recently ( ie. the 2.6.31 re-write ). Also due to the proliferation of
rfkill devices on some platforms, it sometimes proves to be impossible
to get a
I tried the Ubuntu 9.10 beta live CD with Kernel 2.6.31-11 and the problem did
exist there too.
Same thing with Fedora 11 (KDE 4.2.2 and Kernel 2.6.29.4-167) live cd. I'm
running a Lenovo R400 laptop.
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Network Manager disables all wireless networks if kill switch is on
https://bugs.launchpad.
Well, after this behaviour had been fixed for me since 8.04, i confirm it has
appeared again in 9.04 (jaunty).
It is really annoying to have the internal wifi (intel wifi 5100) enabled (and
at least, shut in down via "sudo ifconfig wlan1 down") in order to connect with
my external usb wifi (rea
If you know what your device is you can always blacklist it so the
driver won't load. It's really a half-baked fix, but it works better
than nothing. As for the term "kill switch" on an HP Pavilion, they
have this nice little physical switch on the front of the laptop that is
SUPPOSED to enable/d
I'm not sure how the term "kill switch" is being used here, but I have
an Acer Aspire 2003WLMI notebook and it has the same issue. When I
pressed external button to deactivate the internal wireless adapter, it
also disables my Belkin Wireless Pre-N card in Network Manager.
Extremely frustrating!
I'm able to reproduce the problem as described here. I was trying to
use a Zydas USB NIC while trying to qualify the problems with it (I was
getting random kernel panics along the known kill-switch issue with the
Intel G NICs- killed it doesn't panic...sigh...)- with it killed, NM
doesn't seem to
