Re: NM tidbits

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:

> Except that Enable Wireless turns off wireless completely!  Enable
> Wireless _is_ "airplane mode" essentially.  WRT to scanning, the
> decision was that you will never be able to turn off scanning, that NM
> will scan every now and again based on some heuristics.  Scanning every
> 2 minutes doesn't really take that much power, and people who think it's
> unnecessary can simply deal with it.

What about atheros people who lose connectivity during the scan?
(Or has that been fixed in the driver?)

-derek
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