No auto-enable WiFi at boot

Matt Harrison matt.harrison82 at gmail.com
Mon Oct 5 02:56:32 UTC 2009


On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:30 PM, David N. Lombard <dnl at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> I have an Acer Aspire One D150 running UNR 9.04.  All is well in
> general.  My problem is the radio is brought up at boot and a connection
> is always attempted.  I'd like to use the netbook on a plane, but I
> can't unless I can disable the radio.  There's no hardware radio switch.
>
> Ideally, I'd have a grub boot line that disabled the radio--sort of an
> "airline mode boot".  Barring that, I'll be happy disabling the
> auto-radio-init and a way to manually turn the radio on.  Any suggestions?
>
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Do you happen to have the ability to turn the radio off with softkeys?
 Normally some combination of the FN button and one of the F keys,
like on my EeePC it is FN + F2.

HTH




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