Disable built-in WiFi card so that USB WiFi device gets used.

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Sun Jul 28 04:15:14 UTC 2013


On 07/27/2013 01:42 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:
>
> Is there any way to "disable" the (non-functional) built-in WiFi card so
> that the laptop will
> *not* try to use it but will rather go straight to the (functional) USB
> device?  I Googled around
> a bit and found some instructions for disabling the built-in WiFi card
> under Ubuntu, but
> these instruction did not (as far as I could tell) mesh with the Fedora
> system that I am
> running.  Can anyone tell me how to do what I want under Fedora?

I have an earlier model, the L350.  There's a switch on the front that 
turns the WiFi card on and off.  Have you checked to see if there's one 
on yours?


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