[ltp] Disabling the wireless

André Wyrwa linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:36:12 +0100


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On Mi, 2004-12-15 at 11:08 +0100, Alejandro Sobrino Beltr=E1n wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:41:42 +0100, Andr=E9 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).
>=20
> 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 :-\

Unloading the modules means disabling it. The adapter is as off as it
can be then.

Andr=E9.


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