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

Rolf Turner r.turner at auckland.ac.nz
Sun Jul 28 04:25:20 UTC 2013


On 28/07/13 16:15, Joe Zeff wrote:
> 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?

Just checked; as far as I can see, the answer is no; there is no such 
switch.

     cheers,

         Rolf Turner


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