Comment 70 for bug 1480877

In parallel there has been some discussions on bug #1404188 about dropping the usage of network manager backend, even though unlikely in vivid-overlay unless seen as a bullet proof option.

If you want to try out how that would look like, install the silo 032 on rc-proposed but _without_ upgrading the ubuntu-touch-session there. Or if you upgrade ubuntu-touch-session, just move /etc/profile.d/qt_networkmanager_bearer.sh away and reboot. The silo includes also some networking bug fixes besides making the bearer selectable but that's not relevant to this bug.

The reason for keeping network manager bearer has been that with that Qt knows about switching between 3G and WiFi. If you use only generic plugin, have both wifi and 3g enabled and disable wifi, QNAM:s fall dead. Or if you use 3G only and enable wifi, 3G might be continued to be used. If those problems could be resolved on lower levels for example (or if they already are, the NM bearer enabling was done over a year ago), we could switch to the generic plugin.