[PLUG] turn off a wireless card

[John Jordan]

On 5 Apr 2006, at 21:03, Galen Seitz wrote:

> My IBM X40 laptop has an Intel 2200BG wireless card.  There are times
> when I would like to temporarily turn off the wireless card, but as
> far as I can tell, there is no external switch to turn it off.  Is
> there a command I can use to turn it off, or do I need to unload the
> driver module?  I currently have Fedora Core 4 installed.

<Watching for one of the gurus here to tell me I have no idea what I 
am talking about>

I think the command you want is "sudo ifdown wlan0." The final 
character is a zero. To turn it back on replace "down" with "up."