Update: It turns out that ifdown is only a temporary fix, after a while the wireless network always comes back. Is there any way to temporary switch off the network manager? The bug is pretty annoying when one is in a location where the wireless network is secured through a login web page, because it results in a sudden apparent loss of network connectivity (e.g., from one moment to the next, the email program cannot connect to server anymore, because network-manager has decided that now all network has to go through the wireless, which however needs to be authenticated through a web page).
-- network-manager insists on connecting to wireless network, even if wireless option is disabled https://launchpad.net/bugs/78491 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
