Typing from Ibex Alpha 4 in LiveCD mode, I can confirm that the killswitch still toggles wireless functionality, but does not toggle the light above it.
David On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Leann Ogasawara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi David, > > Care to verify this is still an issue for the latest Alpha release for > the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10? You should be able to test via a > LiveCD - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . Please let us know your > results. Thanks. > > ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu) > Status: New => Incomplete > > -- > radio killswitch light does not reflect killswitch state > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251933 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in "linux" source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete > > Bug description: > My laptop (compaq nx9030) has a small button on the edge that allows the > user to enable/disable the wireless. There is a little LED light above it > that is supposed to reflect the state of this button. It doesn't, it's off > all the time. > > Wishlist: make the light reflect the state of the button > > > > Long story: > Normally, I wouldn't mind, however, I found that after I accidentally > bumped this little button (and forgot about it), my wifi dropped out. After > spending an hour trying to figure out why knetworkmanager "randomly" decided > not to see my wifi card after months of proper behavior, I found a bugreport > asking someone to check /var/log/daemon.log > > Being curious as to what my daemon.log said, I ran > $ cat /var/log/daemon.log > > And lo and behold I find the last two lines say: > Jul 25 12:57:11 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info> User request to > enable wireless overridden by radio killswitch. > Jul 25 12:57:17 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info> User request to > enable wireless overridden by radio killswitch. > > Thought: > "Oh, yeah, I must have bumped that a minute before my wifi died!" > > *presses button again* > > And presto, my wifi works fine again. > > $ cat /var/log/daemon.log > Jul 25 12:57:46 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info> Wireless now enabled > by radio killswitch > > > If that light worked normally, I probably would have noticed that it was > off when I was having trouble. > -- Alpha Epsilon Pi Exchequer -- radio killswitch light does not reflect killswitch state https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251933 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
