#10286 NORM Not Tri: XO-1; eth0 disappears after desktop switching

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#10286: XO-1; eth0 disappears after desktop switching
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           Reporter:  mavrothal     |       Owner:                                   
               Type:  defect        |      Status:  new                              
           Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Not Triaged                      
          Component:  not assigned  |     Version:  Development build as of this date
         Resolution:                |    Keywords:                                   
        Next_action:  reproduce     |    Verified:  0                                
Deployment_affected:                |   Blockedby:                                   
           Blocking:                |  
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Changes (by Quozl):

  * next_action:  never set => reproduce


Comment:

 Replying to [comment:3 mavrothal]:
 > Replying to [comment:1 dsd]:
 > > Please explain how you measured the disappearance of eth0, and post
 logs from olpc-log. And also post "rfkill show" output.
 > >
 >
 > Sorry can't do. By now the XO is re-flashed twice.

 Can you at least remember how you measured the disappearance of eth0?
 What commands or methods did you use to verify that eth0 had disappeared?
 What was the result of the commands?  It is important for us to know,
 because if there was no proof that eth0 had disappeared from ifconfig
 output, for instance, we are required to increase the scope of
 investigation to cover the wireless device and firmware.

 I've reproduced an identical situation by disabling wireless in the nm-
 applet and then switching to Sugar.  ''ifconfig'' shows lo and msh0 only.

 So it seems very likely that this was the cause.  The forum posting by the
 user frasene says they "deselect the wifi", and I take that as being
 turning the radio off in ''My settings''.  The radio off persists across
 desktops.  It should not persist across a copy-nand though.

 cjb: I don't think turning radio off should expire on reboot, because of
 the restricted areas (aka airplane) use case ... an accidental reboot
 would violate the restriction.

 (I do think there should be some visual indication of it being off in the
 neighbourhood view.  There is none right now.  #10292.)

 (Also, I'm slightly concerned that it isn't actually off on XO-1 given
 that I can see msh0 and use it for a scan.  #10291.)

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/10286#comment:4>
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