Public bug reported:
In the top right corner, click on the icon for wireless networks. From the
drop-down menu shown, click on 'Enable wireless' to disable it. You will notice
that this disables Bluetooth as well. This is unexpected as Bluetooth has a
separate UI for enabling or disabling it.
This is troublesome for the following use case:
1) initially both Bluetooth and WiFi (802.11) is enabled and working fine.
2) for some reason the user needs to keep Bluetooth enabled, say, for using a
Bluetooth enabled moue, but wants to keep the wireless networking disabled.
3) due to this bug, when wireless networking is disabled, the Bluetooth mouse
is rendered useless until wireless networking is re-enabled.
This erroneous behavior is equivalent of the 'radio-kill' switch found
on laptops that disables all radios in one shot. The fact that there are
different UI for disabling Bluetooth and WiFi indicates a different
intent--that of providing more granular control.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: network-manager 0.9.4.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.14-c2new x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed May 9 09:32:41 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
IfupdownConfig:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.11.14 dev wlan2 proto static
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlan2 scope link metric 1000
192.168.11.0/24 dev wlan2 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.11.15 metric
2
NetworkManager.state:
[main]
NetworkingEnabled=true
WirelessEnabled=true
WWANEnabled=true
WimaxEnabled=true
SourcePackage: network-manager
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-05 (4 days ago)
nmcli-con:
NAME UUID TYPE
TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP-REAL AUTOCONNECT READONLY
DBUS-PATH
Oarelahb b4ce06d6-8bf0-4f81-ac0b-8692127a9938
802-11-wireless 1332906797 Wednesday 28 March 2012 09:23:17 AM IST yes
no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/2
Soham 68da02c3-d3f5-4946-adca-1b2af1cc722f
802-11-wireless 1336536138 Wednesday 09 May 2012 09:32:18 AM IST yes
no /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/0
nmcli-dev:
DEVICE TYPE STATE DBUS-PATH
wlan2 802-11-wireless connected
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/0
nmcli-nm:
RUNNING VERSION STATE NET-ENABLED WIFI-HARDWARE WIFI
WWAN-HARDWARE WWAN
running 0.9.4.0 connected enabled enabled
enabled enabled enabled
** Affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug precise
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Title:
Disabled wireless network cannot be re-enabled from 'Wireless
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