WiFi restoration

[Bill Oliver]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2015, Ed Greshko wrote:

> On 04/25/15 18:18, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> I'm running Fedora/KDE, and I don't see anything called "Airplane mode"
>> (or Airplane anything) in KNetworkManager.
>
> I don't know what you mean by "KNetworkManager" but I am running F21/KDE.
>
> I am using "kde-plasma-nm".  When I left-click on the Network-Icon in the systray a dialog is exposed.  At the very top are 2 check-boxes.  The left most check box is for turning the WiFi on.  I have a desk top with wifi and wired.  To the right of the WiFi is another box with a little airplane.  This turns on/off airplane mode.  I wonder if/what the difference is...but since I rarely use the WiFi on this system I've not spent any time to investigate.
>
>

As I remember, turning wifi off will turn wifi and roaming off.
Airplane mode will do that *and* any other wireless connection if you
have it -- bluetooth, GPS, whatever.

Could be wrong, though...

I don't use bluetooth or GPS on my laptop.

billo