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

Harald Hoyer harald at redhat.com
Mon Jul 29 07:47:34 UTC 2013


On 07/29/2013 02:28 AM, poma wrote:
> On 29.07.2013 02:01, Rolf Turner wrote:
>>>     (b) Would it be possible to disable/mask the internal WiFi card but
>> leave the USB WiFi device
>>     available, so that I can actually get a WiFi connection?
>>>> I am running Fedora 17; output of "uname -a" is:
>>>
>>>> Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 7
>>>> 17:29:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>
>>> Thanks for any help that anyone can give me.
>>
> 
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/announce/2013-July/003169.html
> 
> BIOS settings, NetworkManager?
> 
> on Fedora 19,
> man 7 dracut.cmdline - rd.driver.blacklist
> 
> e.g.
> /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
> append … rd.driver.blacklist=<drivername>
> 
> /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
> linux …	rd.driver.blacklist=<drivername>
> 
> 
> poma
> 

That would disable it only in the initramfs.


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