On Monday, 24 June 2019 12:17:51 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:00:36 +0100, Mick wrote:

> > Could someone more knowledgeable in  Plasma/KDE shenanigans please
> > explain how I can end up with a workable USB wireless dongle, which I
> > can enable/disable at will?
> 
> Set USE="-wireless" for powerdevil
> 
> I have KDE on this laptop, with no NM. The wireless connection is managed
> by systemd-networkd here, but the same should be possible with openrc and
> no NM.

Excellent!  This is what I was looking for.  Thank you Neil.  :-)

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Regards,

Mick