Dead Production WLAN card

pgf at laptop.org pgf at laptop.org
Thu May 20 10:48:12 EDT 2010


it seems i was mistaken.  the card was disabled using gnome's nm-applet.

paul

i wrote:
 > 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
 > =---------------------
 >  paul fox, pgf at laptop.org

=---------------------
 paul fox, pgf at laptop.org



More information about the Devel mailing list