[PLUG] turn off a wireless card

Russell Senior seniorr at aracnet.com
Thu Apr 6 07:02:05 UTC 2006


>>>>> "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.

Did you try:

  iwconfig eth1 power off

?

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