On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:48:54 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 09:23:34 +0200, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
>> I don't know the machine you are using, but does it have a hardware >> button or touch 'thing' to enable/disable wifi? My HP laptop has a sort >> of hardware touch control, and disabling wifi with network manager >> (which I guess is what you did) also turns the wifi card off so that I >> have to first use such hardware control. >> > > So temporarily disabling wifi with the network manager tells something > in the boot process that the wifi device is to be considered > nonexistent? Yes. Fos instance, if you toggle off the wifi switch (it can be a dedicated button or a combo key) it will effectively disable the wireless adapter meaning N-M will not try to connect/detect from any wifi signal source. > Presumably that's something at BIOS level. Anyway, I > managed to reboot into the BIOS menu, and found that WLAN was indeed > disabled. I enabled it, and wifi is back. Maybe your notebook has special BIOS whose values can be altered from windows software or even when you press the keys/swiches :-? > Is it reasonable to consider it a bug that the network manager > completely disables the wifi to the extent that the device appears not > to exist on subsequent reboots, and that the network manager no longer > has the menu item so it can't restore it? I get the same behaviour when I toggle off the wifi button: N-M remains with an "x" and off. > Or is the hardware such that the network manager couldn't restore it > after a reboot no matter how hard it tried? That seems far-fetched, but > possible. You should be able to re-engage the wireless adapter by just pressing the wifi button withou needing to jump to the BIOS. What does "rfkill" says? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jujmma$rg0$6...@dough.gmane.org
