Wireless becomes disabled when on battery power

[AuntieParticle]

Re: Wireless becomes disabled when on battery power

I've been on the laptop using battery power while browsing around the Internet for about 2 1/2 hours. I've even watched a couple YouTube videos. I've had no wireless slow downs or desktop lockups. So, it seems that switching to WICD has done something good. I think the combination of changing Power Manager settings and installing WICD may have cured my problem. But I need to test it out over the next week or so to be sure. I'll post if any problems show up.

Thanks for all the guidance.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Wireless becomes disabled when on battery power

In your honor I also changed to WICD one of my laptops. All my mysterious networking problems went away.

I saw the lead developer of KDE Network Manager post on a blog (in response to a review of Kubuntu that included a comment that his program didn't work well) that as far as he knew, there wasn't anything wrong with it. Talk about clueless. With that sort of engineering blindness at the helm, I doubt KNetworkManager will ever work. Thank goodness it's linux and we can install whatever we want!

[AuntieParticle]

Re: Wireless becomes disabled when on battery power

Thank goodness it's linux and we can install whatever we want!

Absolutely! Isn't that why we're all here?