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Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT] rtl8187: Implement rfkill support
From: Hin-Tak Leung <hintak.leung@gmail.com>
To: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br>
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	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Herton Ronaldo
Krzesinski<herton@mandriva.com.br> wrote:
<snipped>
> This is strange, may be NetworkManager does something extra and for some reason
> manages to wake up the interface again? I thought it would be unable to "if up"
> the interface since -ERFKILL should be returned to it when switch is off...
>
>>
>> Is this intentional? I thought it is supposed to actually switch off
>> the hardware, or is this how the code supposed to work?
>> Maybe some component needs to let NM knows not to reenanble the device.
>
> About taking interface down, thats expected, but I don't know about
> NetworkManager, I was expecting it to be unable to "if up" the interface again.

Is there a minimum version of NM/wpa_supplicant  this is expected? I
could upgrade if needed to. I am mostly fedora 11 based and have NM
0.7.1-8.git20090708 , wpa_supplicant 0.6.8.

Hin-Tak