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Originally Posted by davidfor
For whatever reason, the design is that WiFi gets enabled whenever Bluetooth is enabled.
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That's because the kernel only exposes a single way to power on the single chip that handles BT & Wi-Fi, so using BT *requires* powering-on the Wi-Fi chip (because it's also the BT chip).
Historically, killing Wi-Fi on NTX boards entailed powering it down, too (probably for power efficiency reasons), so powering the WI-Fi chip was somewhat fairly heavily tied with enabling Wi-Fi
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Which means that making the two *distinct* UI-wise is tricky: you'd have to uncouple toggling Wi-Fi power from toggling Wi-Fi connection (which probably entails mostly always leaving the chip powered on, which is... meh', especially on a board that already suffers from terrible power management. Ironically enough, that BT+Wi-Fi chip might be the most power efficient thing in there
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