Completely disable buildt-in WLAN

[Paul Fox]

kevin wrote:
 > Folks:
 > 
 > Is there a quick and dirty line I can maybe  just put into a boot-time file
 > that will totally disable the internal WLAN card on the XO 1, 1.5 and 1.75
 > every time I boot until I manually remove that line?  I dont want to

keeping the module from being loaded should do it.  i think that
adding a line to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf that says:
    blacklist libertas
will do.

there's some chance that (i can't remember) that libertas will be loaded
from the initrd, in which case you'll also need to do a 
    modprobe -r libertas_sdio
or
    modprobe -r libertas_usb (on XO-1)
from somewhere like /etc/rc.local.  i say "like" rc.local, because
that file doesn't exist in recent builds, because modern linux
designers have little respect at all for the great, and useful,
traditions of the past.

paul

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly."
		-- Henry Spencer

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