andy-tracking

Sander van Grieken sander at 3v8.net
Wed Jan 7 14:06:00 CET 2009


On Wednesday 07 January 2009 13:44:36 Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> |> Thanks for the report about it, what does enabled or disabled mean for
> |> Wifi?  Say if it is in "disabled" situation, what does that look like?
> |
> | eth0 is up but lost its IP, wireless is not associated.
> | An 'ifup eth0' immediately re-establishes the connection..
>
> I think this is actually OK if we lose association while down.  It
> should be a matter for the userspace stuff like NetworkManager to try to
> reacquire.
>
> If you think about case where it suspends and then you walked to another
> building before waking it, you're going to need a fresh management
> action of WLAN connection.

True, but still the behaviour should be the same after every suspend cycle.

Also it should not bring up wireless after boot.

grtz,
Sander




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