Re: How to stop wireless autostarting at boot?

[Panayiotis Mousouliotis <pmousoul gmail com>]

I would like to start with Wireless disabled completely and enable it from network manager whenever i need it.

Now, i have blacklisted the wireless module (in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf) and i make a script that executes

modprobe iwlagn 

in order to start wireless. 

Loading the module makes wireless to start in network manager in my acer 5920g latop.

And i would like to know if there is a simpler and more elegant way to do this.. maybe using network manager.


Panayiotis

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Darren Albers <dalbers gmail com> wrote:

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Panayiotis Mousouliotis
<pmousoul gmail com> wrote:
> I use ubuntu 9.10 and when i boot wireless always starts.
>
> Is there a way to disable wireless autostarting using some network manager
> option or configuration?
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Panayiotis
>

Do you want to start with Wireless disabled completely or just not
autoconnect to AP's?

If you edit the profile for your wireless networks you can uncheck
connect automatically to make all networks manual connections.