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[Luca Ferretti <elle.uca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It seems that HAL >= 0.5.10 provides a DBus interface called KillSwitch
that allow to monitor and toggle network interfaces. This should yet use
PolicyKit and it seems there is basic support to Dell laptops[1]

[1] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal-
commit/2008-January/004128.html

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Use PolicyKit in aircraft-manager
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/354377
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Status in Dell Inspiron Mini with Custom Dell UI: Confirmed

Bug description:
The aircraft manager utility is great, but it forces you to enter the password any time you like to swith wifi on/off.

The PolicyKit framework could be used instead plain gksu, allowing users to automatically authenticate when launching the aircraft-manager (if this is, of course, the behavior desired by user). See http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyKit/ for more details.