On 2009-01-01, Sven Burmeister wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 31. Dezember 2008 15:00:20 schrieb r:
I could be wrong, but it seems to me this works for windows. I explain. Yes there is a button to switch on wlan, and in windows it works so, but ( and here I could be wrong ) in linux it seems to me that the wlan is always active. For exemple, if I boot and go, with knetworkmanager in the tool for managing networks I see an option to switch off wlan. I tried to switch off but at reboot it was again active, so it seems to me the button doesn't works on linux. A tips I had is to blacklist the driver which kernel/networkmanager loads at boot, but my question is, if I don't load the driver I cannot connect ( until I do a modprobe ) to wlan, but the device itself is in anyway switched on ? because blacklisting the driver too, I, in networkmanager, see always the option to swirch off wifi. So it seems it is not switched off
If so, report this to you hardware manufacturer/laptop seller and tell him that he should make sure that the driver handling your hardware is up to the job, since you paid the same money as a Windows user did. Windows would not work without drivers, MS does not write drivers, hardware suppliers do, so why should Linux work without drivers from hardware manufacturers? (Although it does, bu that's not the point.)
Sven
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