Comment 5 for bug 556323

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Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox) wrote : Re: Disable mobile broadband takes no effect

I don't know what I was doing before but I actually *can* reproduce the "issue". The problem is, modems can still be enabled by clicking on a connection, but while mobile broadband is disabled they would be in low-power state and signal strength, registration, etc, would be unavailable; which agrees with what I can see on my system...

My modem won't get powered off, but that's because it's on the USB bus and has no killswitch anyway.

However, as mentioned in the upstream bug, this is "intended" behaviour, by being the lesser evil: there is still no better way to deal with all the different types of devices out there.

Marking Triaged, in case someone would come up with a decent way of dealing with this, but without killswitches for most modems (e.g. USB) the chances are pretty slim (sorry!).

FWIW, I tried to deal with this by asking NM whether the device was enabled or not, but a MB device is enabled when connected and disabled when not (it goes to low power state), and there is no way to HW-disable the devices I had (though internal modems may have killswitches -- see 'rfkill list').