[olug] Eee netbooks

[Kevin]

What is meant by a wifi kill switch? A single hardware button? Or
fn-F2 or something?

I've got the latter, and it turns the wireless both off and on. Both
under the OS it used to have and under UbuntuEEE. I would not want a
netbook that had the former without some kind of ability to deactivate
the hardware button.

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 17:14, Irish <irish.masms at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:38 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> [snipped]
>> I think the wifi kill switch is just a bad idea. If you're not plugged
>> into a power cable, then you're likely not plugged into an ethernet
>> cable either. These are called NETBOOKS, and have the primary purpose
>> of connecting to the internet. Killing internet connection to save
>> battery seems counter intuitive.
>> [snipped]
>
>
> TJ - having a switch for the ability to turn on & off WiFi is a good thing,
> depending on the environment you work in. Lets just say there are places
> that if you were unable to turn WiFi off via hardware, then the WiFi card
> would have to be removed.
>
> Would you want your netbook bridging two networks (wired & some unknown
> wireless)?
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