[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#649042: Bug#649042: network-manager-gnome: cannot disconnect from wlan network without soft blocking the device

[Michael Biebl]

On 17.11.2011 04:22, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Package: network-manager-gnome
> Version: 0.9.2.0-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> the current behaviour of nm-applet is that you cannot *disconnect* from
> a certain wlan network, only switch to a different one. If I want to
> disconnect I have to click the ON-OFF button, which soft blocks the
> device with the rfkill method.
> 
> This is *very* unconvenient behaviour, as I often have apparently free
> wlans around that NM automatically connects to (this is another bug
> I submit), but they are not really free (pay online etc).
> 

Why should whe wifi device stay enabled and consume power if it is not used?


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