Bug 1315979

Summary: NetworkManager must not enable wireless devices after restart
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Lukas Slebodnik <lslebodn>
Component: NetworkManagerAssignee: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Lukas Slebodnik 2016-03-09 07:53:30 UTC
Description of problem:
I do not have a hardware switch for disabling wireless devices on my laptop.
I have to use "soft blocking" with keyboard or with rfkill.
There isn't any light which could display state of wireless device.

However the state is not preserved after restarting NM.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
NetworkManager-1.2.0-0.6.beta2.fc24.x86_64

How reproducible:
Deterministic

Steps to Reproduce:
A. [root@host ~]# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no
B. [root@graviton ~]# systemctl restart NetworkManager

Actual results:
[root@graviton ~]# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

Expected results:
[root@host ~]# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no

Comment 1 Lukas Slebodnik 2017-01-20 07:45:49 UTC
Any news after 9 months?

Comment 2 Fedora End Of Life 2017-07-25 20:18:31 UTC
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Comment 3 Beniamino Galvani 2017-08-04 12:44:28 UTC
NetworkManager maintains a persistent state that includes the desired
radio state, and enforces this state each time it's started.

Therefore, if you are using NetworkManager and want to keep wifi
disabled, 'nmcli radio wifi off' should be used.

Comment 4 Lukas Slebodnik 2017-08-04 13:38:26 UTC
(In reply to Beniamino Galvani from comment #3)
> NetworkManager maintains a persistent state that includes the desired
> radio state, and enforces this state each time it's started.
> 
> Therefore, if you are using NetworkManager and want to keep wifi
> disabled, 'nmcli radio wifi off' should be used.

It is something different what I would like to achieve.
"rfkill block" and "rfkill unblock" are equivalent to enabling/disabling wifi on laptop using fn+f8 (or other combination of keys)

If I disable wifi with keybord then I would like to have this state even after restarting NetworkManager.

After calling "nmcli radio wifi off" it is not possible to use wifi anymore with NM.

sh# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

sh# nmcli radio wifi off
sh# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: yes
        Hard blocked: no

sh# rfkill unblock 0
sh# rfkill list
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
        Soft blocked: no
        Hard blocked: no

sh# nmcli radio wifi
disabled

sh# nmcli connection show --active 
NAME     UUID                                  TYPE            DEVICE  
docker0  0ae125a0-160d-49ad-9815-768bf1b9866a  bridge          docker0 
enp0s25  74d46029-a6c5-4c6e-a922-d09d7e34e9ab  802-3-ethernet  enp0s25

sh# nmcli connection up "MY Guest"
Error: Connection activation failed: No suitable device found for this connection.

sh# nmcli radio wifi on
sh# nmcli connection up "MY Guest"
Connection successfully activated (D-Bus active path: /org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/10)

sh# nmcli connection show --active 
NAME           UUID                                  TYPE             DEVICE  
MY Guest       d08d434c-2700-44ac-a2df-c9c1ef76b90c  802-11-wireless  wlp3s0  
docker0        0ae125a0-160d-49ad-9815-768bf1b9866a  bridge           docker0 
enp0s25        74d46029-a6c5-4c6e-a922-d09d7e34e9ab  802-3-ethernet   enp0s25

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Comment 6 Lukas Slebodnik 2018-05-03 10:44:23 UTC
Reproducible on f29

Comment 7 Jan Kurik 2018-08-14 10:22:51 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 29 development cycle.
Changing version to '29'.

Comment 8 Ben Cotton 2019-10-31 20:51:35 UTC
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Comment 9 Ben Cotton 2020-04-30 20:45:44 UTC
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Comment 10 Ben Cotton 2020-05-26 17:47:08 UTC
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