[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#608533: I get this same behavior

[Dominique Brazziel]

	I am trying to disable the wireless connection for 2 reasons

1)  I have a wired connection and never use the wireless connection
    except for testing purposes

2)  The 'rt2860sta' driver currently has annoying debug messages turned
    on that spam the kernel log, in my case, every minute.

The method I used to disable wireless was, per the friendly manual
(man NetworkManager.conf), to include the 'keyfile' plugin and 
and include the wireless adapter MAC address in the list of 
'unmanaged-devices':

unmanaged-devices=mac:01:02:03:04:05:06

This works fine, the driver doesn't spam the log, and nm-applet
shows 'device not managed' under the 'Wireless' section.  But after
reboot, it shows as 'Disconnected' and I get spam again.  The quickest
way to get back to some normalcy is to uncheck 'Enable Wireless' in 
nm-applet, but that will be overridden the next time the system thaws
from sleep or is rebooted.  The root cause seems to be that nm-applet is
not honoring the 'NetworkManager.conf' file, perhaps by assuming some
default settings based on state changes?  

I have attached some log files you requested from the OP, hopefully
the names are descriptive enough.  I wasn't able to boot from LiveCD
because I don't have a CD-ROM.  I do not have a special script in 
/etc/init.d/ to tell NM to sleep/wake on shutdown.   


 
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NetworkingEnabled=true
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