[ltp] Disabling the wireless

Frank Schaeckermann linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:11:56 +0100


Alejandro Sobrino Beltrán alex.sobrino-at-gmail.com wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:41:42 +0100, André Wyrwa <a.wyrwa@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>>Get friends with your acpid configuration (man acpid, look
>>in /etc/acpi/events and /etc/acpi/actions). And get morpheus has
>>published a little howto "ACPI and ibm-acpi" to this list, you might
>>want to read that, he described how to set switch wireless on and off
>>via Fn+F7 (for an Atheros based WiFi-Card).
> 
> 
> I've read it, but he only does a modprobe -r "WLAN_MODULES" and I
> don't want that, I want to disable (by HW or SW) the WLAN :-\

But that is exactly what you accomplish by stopping the WLAN modules!
You won't need the modules anyway if you have your hardware switched 
off. So what is your problem with stopping them?

Regards, Frank