Help debugging / correcting wireless speed issue

CS_DBA cs_dba at consistentstate.com
Mon Mar 17 23:49:18 UTC 2014


On 03/17/2014 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/18/14 07:20, CS_DBA wrote:
>> If I get a USB wifi dongle how do I go about telling my system to NOT use the built in 7260 and use the dongle instead?
> Usually you can disable the on-board wireless of a laptop in either the BIOS or a physical switch on the laptop.
>
>> Also any advice per usb dongle wifi compatibility?
> Google would be your friend in that regard....  One link would be http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB
>
> As I mentioned earlier, best to buy products that are not newly released as linux support often lags.
>

I found a dongle on the list at a local microcenter... cannot find any 
info on how to turn the built in wifi off, nothing obvious in the bios, 
no HW switch other than the Fn-F8 which does not work...

Any ideas on how I could disable it via Fedora?



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