[PLUG] turn off a wireless card

[Russell Senior]

>>>>> "Galen" == Galen Seitz <galens at seitzassoc.com> writes:

Galen> The Intel 2200BG shows up as eth1, not wlan0, on my system.
Galen> "ifdown eth1" stops any packets from being routed over the
Galen> wireless link, but the LED wireless indicator still goes on and
Galen> off as if the radio is still active.  iwconfig gives no
Galen> indication that the radio is off.

I don't know the answer for your hardware.  You might look at the
iwpriv command.  That should list the private ioctl's, perhaps one of
which is a power control.


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