#8062 HIGH 8.2.0 (: Need a default to leave RF turned off on reboot
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Wed Aug 20 16:21:22 EDT 2008
#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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