Tim wrote: > On Sat, 2015-04-25 at 01:22 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> Airplane mode? Is there such a thing on a laptop? > > I would have thought so, people do use laptops when they travel.
I'm running Fedora/KDE, and I don't see anything called "Airplane mode" (or Airplane anything) in KNetworkManager. When I google for "fedora airplane mode" I get lots of hits but none of the ones I've looked at actually explain what they mean by this term. I have a switch on the side of my Thinkpad T510 which switches off wireless - I think most Thinkpads have this - but I haven't seen it referred to as "airplane mode" anywhere. I'm not sure if "rfkill block wifi" has exactly the same effect as this switch. (I had to use "rfkill unblock" while trying to get KDE Connect working, but that is another story.) I'm in the distant room where WiFi sometimes fails - but infrequently - and reception is fine at the moment; but if WiFi does fail I'll first try turning the "wireless switch" off for a few seconds, and then on again. I should have thought of that earlier. Incidentally, I took an edX course on networking online last year, and came to the conclusion that it was a miracle that WiFi works at all; the connection algorithm is completely different to ethernet, and seemed to me extraordinarily complicated. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
