Disabling Hardware Devices

[Barry Young]

Fair enough Steve.

Lets say I have a network adapter that is built in to the motherboard.  I 
want to install a wireless adapter.  In Windows I can disable the internal 
mb adapter and use the install or activate the wireless.

Thanks!

Barry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Feehan" <sfeehan at sbb.uvm.edu>
To: "Ubuntu Help and User Discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 16, 2005 11:00 PM
Subject: Re: Disabling Hardware Devices


> On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 10:48:36PM -0500, Barry Young wrote:
>> In Windows XP, you can simply disable a hardware device such as a network 
>> card.
>>
>> Is it just as easy in Linux?
>>
>> Thanks again for this great resource!
>>
>> Barry
>>
>
> For network cards, you can "disable" them by not configuring them.
>
> I think to give you a complete answer, I'd have to know exactly
> what you're trying to accomplish? And why?
>
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