Dead Production WLAN card

[John Watlington]

On May 19, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Richard A. Smith wrote:

> I've got bad news from our tester in Canada. The production laptop we sent him has lost its wireless. It only took one trip in his backpack.
> 
> In discussion with him a new piece of information was discovered.  He is using the Network Manager wireless disable function prior to suspending the card.   The wireless disable function is supposed to just turn off the power to the WLAN but perhaps it is the reason he is able to kill the WLAN so quickly.

Does anyone do this on a regular basis to their XO-1.5 ?

Cheers,
wad