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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Norton, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment
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       Status: Triaged => Invalid

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Title:
  radio killswitch light does not reflect killswitch state

Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  My laptop (compaq nx9030) has a small button on the edge that allows
  the user to enable/disable the wireless. There is a little LED light
  above it that is supposed to reflect the state of this button. It
  doesn't, it's off all the time.

  Wishlist: make the light reflect the state of the button


  Long story:
  Normally, I wouldn't mind, however, I found that after I accidentally bumped this little button (and forgot about it), my wifi dropped out. After spending an hour trying to figure out why knetworkmanager "randomly" decided not to see my wifi card after months of proper behavior, I found a bugreport asking someone to check  /var/log/daemon.log

  Being curious as to what my daemon.log said, I ran 
  $ cat  /var/log/daemon.log 

  And lo and behold I find the last two lines say:
  Jul 25 12:57:11 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info>  User request to enable wireless overridden by radio killswitch.
  Jul 25 12:57:17 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info>  User request to enable wireless overridden by radio killswitch.

  Thought:
  "Oh, yeah, I must have bumped that a minute before my wifi died!"

  *presses button again*

  And presto, my wifi works fine again.

  $ cat /var/log/daemon.log
  Jul 25 12:57:46 dnorton-laptop NetworkManager: <info>  Wireless now enabled by radio killswitch

  
  If that light worked normally, I probably would have noticed that it was off when I was having trouble.

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