No auto-enable WiFi at boot

[Pookito]

Matt is right, usually computers have a feature like that, if they do not 
have a kill switch, you should have a feature like that.  Otherwise I think 
you could access the Bios and disable it that way.

Matt Harrison wrote:

> 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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>> dnl
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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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Josh Dem