Milan Bouchet-Valat <nalimilan@...> writes:
> > Le mercredi 02 novembre 2011 à 10:17 +0000, Gabriel Rossetti a écrit : > > Because it's not the same thing, disconnecting it (and the wifi, etc) > > means "I no longer want to use the connection", switching it off means > > "I want to deactivate the broadband card, wifi card, etc", it's like > > the hardware switch on laptops but controlled via software. If you > > take the wifi example, I may no longer want to be connected to a > > network but still want to use my wifi card (with kismet for example). > When I disconnect from WiFi, I expect the computer to be smart enough to > turn off the (now useless) card automatically, to save power. People > wouldn't like getting a shorter battery life because of a device that > isn't currently used. > > The fact that you can want to disconnect and use software to do wireless > sniffing is really a hacker problem that the default design shouldn't > aim at. Hackers are clued enough to find another way to disconnect the > WiFi without turning the card off (using nm-cli for example). My scenario is that I (mistakenly) clicked on a wireless network (a neighbor of mine) that I do not have access to. Since I cannot find a way to disconnect or remove the auto-connect for that network, periodically I get dialogs in my face telling me to enter the authentication key (which I don't have). This seems as a design flaw, or am I missing something? _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list gnome-shell-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
