airline-friendly wireless disabling?

[Ivan Krstić]

Dan Williams wrote:
> Well, you can call NetworkManager's 'sleep' method, which makes NM tear
> the connection down and then essentially do 'ifconfig eth0 down'.  When
> the driver gets the down request, it _should_ stop transmitting and
> power down the radio.  The libertas driver may not actually do that yet,
> not sure.

Renaming the firmware blob and rebooting would do the trick, wouldn't it?

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