Turn WiFi off

[Wudang]

Although bought with WiFi module this was done mainly on a "just in case" basis.

Until I need to make use of it how do you disable WiFi from transmitting as no option to do so appears, as far as I can see, within the BIOS settings.

[irads]

You can disable WiFi from the operating system.

[advid]

You can disable WiFi from the operating system.

ahem...
I haven't enabled/configured anything wifi on my mandriva linux, but the wifi LED is blinking. And I don't want wifi at all...

Does anyone knows how to disable wifi on fitPC2i ?
Shall I blacklist the module rt2870 ? (edit: rt3070sta maybe)
Shall I shut off USB bus 1, device 4 ? And how ?

(I've searched on the net and in my config tools, no luck)

[advid]

Well I've done this (mandriva) :

/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nowifi

blacklist rt3070sta
blacklist rt2800usb
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00lib
blacklist mac80211
blacklist cfg80211

After reboot : no wifi LED blinking
There's only rt2870sta loaded, maybe it's in the initrd, but it isn't a big deal.

If anyone has a better/nicer way to do, please tell

[fly]

--edit: I am posting too slowly.... --

I haven't enabled/configured anything wifi on my mandriva linux, but the wifi LED is blinking. And I don't want wifi at all...

If anyone has a better/nicer way to do, please tell

Better depends on the case. Sometimes, e.g. on embedded platforms, it might be useful to build you own kernel with just the needed parts and -- in your case -- completley remove the wlan subsystem

Does anyone knows how to disable wifi on fitPC2i ?
Shall I blacklist the module rt2870 ? (edit: rt3070sta maybe)
Shall I shut off USB bus 1, device 4 ? And how ?

Run lsmod to get the module(s) name and then blacklist it in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf (maybe its named just blacklist oder blacklist-xyz.conf on mandriva):

blacklist modulname

After that you should run update-initramfs -u.