Dead Production WLAN card

[Paul Fox]

nate wrote:
 > Looks like the ESD bug strikes again...
 > http://wiki.laptop.org/go/XO1.5_WLAN_ESD_protection
 > 
 > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington <wad at laptop.org> wrote:
 > 
 > >
 > > 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 ?

to be clear, the mechanism he was using wasn't via NM, but via
the sugar network control panel "Radio" checkbox.  (that
checkbox is directly hooked up to the shell command "rfkill
un/block wifi".)

paul
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