[Sugar-devel] [DESIGN] Rework the wireless control panel section to respect non-wireless connections

[Daniel Narvaez]

On 21 January 2014 03:15, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com> wrote:

> Daniel Narvaez wrote notifications at github.com
>
>> Where are you testing this? In Fedora 20, the list of devices seems to be
>> available even if wireless is disabled
>>
>> [dnarvaez at vaio src]$ nmcli r
>> WIFI-HW  WIFI      WWAN-HW  WWAN
>> enabled  disabled  enabled  enabled
>> [dnarvaez at vaio src]$ nmcli d
>> DEVICE  TYPE      STATE
>> wlp1s0  wifi      unavailable
>> lo      loopback  unmanaged
>>
>> I have not tested with the dbus service directly, but I'd expect nmcli to
>> ultimately be using the dbus service to get this info.
>>
> On the XO-1 with OLPC 13.2.0 and NetworkManager 0.9.8.1-3.git20130514.fc18
> :
>
> -bash-4.2# nmcli nm
> RUNNING         STATE           WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE
> WWAN
> running         connected       enabled         enabled    enabled
> disabled
> -bash-4.2# nmcli d
> DEVICE     TYPE              STATE
> msh0       802-11-olpc-mesh  disconnected
> eth0       802-11-wireless   connected
>
> -bash-4.2# nmcli nm wifi off
> RUNNING         STATE           WIFI-HARDWARE   WIFI       WWAN-HARDWARE
> WWAN
> running         disconnected    enabled         disabled   enabled
> disabled
> -bash-4.2# nmcli d
> DEVICE     TYPE              STATE
>

By the way, if I'm understanding things correctly, this issue is
independent from the "Discard network history" one and might benefit from
being handled separately.

Given that the XO wouldn't use this feature (it has an internal wireless
device) it seems like it should be implemented using the NetworkManager
interfaces and somehow disabled on the XO, or, assuming the issue with
devices not being listed with radio off is not driver related, more
generically on old NetworkManager versions.
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