#5771 NORM Never A: Need ability to turn mesh off as it breaks some wireless devices

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#5771: Need ability to turn mesh off as it breaks some wireless devices
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 Reporter:  Phil    |       Owner:  jg            
     Type:  defect  |      Status:  new           
 Priority:  normal  |   Milestone:  Never Assigned
Component:  distro  |     Version:                
 Keywords:          |    Verified:  0             
 Blocking:          |   Blockedby:                
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 I've heard twice today from two different folks that having their XO up
 and running seems to cause problems with other wireless devices.  It seems
 that a number of poorly-written wireless device drivers don't like having
 the mesh network up in their presence.

 I've been telling people to do 'su - -c '/sbin/ifconfig msh0 down'" to
 turn the mesh off, but I suspect that we should expose this via sugar-
 control-panel or something similar.

 This is causing problems with other devices, although not the XO itself,
 amusingly.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/5771>
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