Enable tapping by default

Jaroslav Nahorny jaroslav at hackerspace.pl
Tue Nov 18 20:16:34 UTC 2014


Björn Persson <bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se> writes:

> Jaroslav Nahorny <jaroslav at hackerspace.pl> wrote:
>> [1] I know it's a far analogy, but let's try to imagine:
>> Let's disable wifi hardware by default. Why? Because some people are not
>> aware of this feature. They want to use their eth interface, and having
>> wireless interface turned on produces unnecessary „noise” and confusion.
>> If somebody wants to use wifi, they can enable it.
>> Seems legit, right?
>
> As far as I can tell Fedora doesn't automatically connect to Wifi
> networks it hasn't encountered before. You have to explicitly tell it
> to connect. Then, once you have enabled it, it may reconnect
> automatically thereafter. So yes, this seems not only legit; it seems
> to be reality.

I didn't mean connecting (or not) to wireless networks, but disabling
hardware from normal operation. This is what we are at the moment doing
with touchpads. We are disabling a feature those devices have built-in.
-- 
jaroslav
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