Re: Switch off wifi-handling?

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Tue, 2015-06-16 at 20:44 +0200, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Dan, thanks for the quick response!
>
> Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:
> > NM 0.9.10 and later added the ability to ignore an interface by
> > interface name.  NM 0.9.10 and later also split WiFi out to a plugin,
> > which could be removed and then the wifi interface just looks like an
> > unmanaged generic device.
>
> I hope, that I can upgrade to > 1 some day!
>
> > But since you're using a very old version, none of those work for you :(
> > Could you try removing wpa_supplicant?  Then NM will leave the device in
> > 'unavailable' state and shouldn't touch it after initial NM startup.
>
> I removed wpasupplicant and get wlan0 as "unmanaged", not "unavailable":
>
> $ nmcli dev
> DEVICE     TYPE              STATE
> eth0       802-3-ethernet    connected
> usb0       802-3-ethernet    unavailable
> wlan0      802-11-wireless   unmanaged
>
> Is this the expected result?

Even better.  "unmanaged" should produce the correct result for you.
Let us know how it goes...

Dan