I haven't followed this thread at all but this is a common feature on many laptops. There is often a BIOS setting for it. I didn't find the manual for the P72 in a quick search but the P71 manual turned up this BIOS option: Wireless Auto Disconnection Values: Disabled, Enabled Descriptions: Enable or disable the wireless automatic disconnection function. This is selectable only when an Ethernet cable is connected to the Ethernet connector on your computer. If you select Enabled, Wireless LAN signals are automatically turned off whenever an Ethernet cable is attached On Sun, 2020-05-31 at 09:08 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2020 at 05:31, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > I looked back in the thread and I could find no indication that the > > Fn key sequence was indicated to exist or > > was tried. > > > > I understand that plugging in the ethernet cable results in a hard > > block. However, it seems one should at least see if the Fn key > > then overrides that. If that has been tried I can't find it. Then > > again, I've been distracted > > these days. > > > > Most Windows users that I know only have one interface active at a > > time. So, the design of the ethernet > > disabling Wifi may be based on those types. :-) :-) > > Many of my friends, my father, my siblings, and I have all worked for > various government agencies or contractors (for one of this group, > all the Lenovo laptops were confiscated by IT). WiFi was not > permitted in many government workplaces, and you were not allowed to > connect a switch or router to the one LAN port in your > office/cubicle. Some people got around this by running AP's on > their laptops, so it would not surprise me that a Lenovo laptop > marketed to governments would have firmware that does not allow > simultaneous use of ethernet and wifi. I once attempted to purchase > a couple Lenovo laptops, but was told I had to work with Lenovo's > government sales office. I was told they normally deal in purchases > quantities in the many 1000's, but always had a few extras built so > if I could wait until an order was complete I might be able to get > one of the extra systems. I assume those extras end up being sold > in irregular channels. > > -- > George N. White III > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
