#8062 HIGH 8.2.0 (: Need a default to leave RF turned off on reboot

[Zarro Boogs per Child]

#8062: Need a default to leave RF turned off on reboot
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 Reporter:  kimquirk       |         Owner:  erikos              
     Type:  enhancement    |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  high           |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  control panel  |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:                 |   Next_action:  diagnose            
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                      
 Blocking:                 |  
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 70x series (8.1.x) and joyrides up to 2301.

 If you turn off the radio (RF) through sugar-control-panel or through the
 new GUI control panel, after a reboot it turns back on.

 In many deployments today where there are many hundreds of laptops, there
 may be no good way to use collaboration and the work-around is for all XOs
 to turn off their radio and turn them on only in small groups when they
 want to share a project or connect to the internet.

 For this work around to be effective, we need a default value that can be
 set in the control panel, radio off by default. When the laptops boots, it
 ensures that the radio is off again. NOTE: I'm not asking that the radio
 never turn on; if it comes on/off during boot driven by OFW, that's ok.
 Once the laptop has booted up, if the 'default radio off' is true, then
 the radio should be turned off.

 I tagged this bug with 'blocks?' to get an analysis of what is needed so
 we can make a decision on its blocking -- not because it blocks the 8.2.0
 release. It is extremely important for some country deployments (Rwanda,
 Haiti, and Birmingham today) so we need a solution... but we can decide on
 the release after we get info about the work effort and its complexity.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8062>
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