[Discuss] How to turn off wireless on eeePC with Kubuntu

[Murray Strome]

The WLAN is "unavailable" because I disabled it, but I believe the 
transmitter is probably still on because the LED for the wireless is 
still on. On my other laptop, if I turn off the wireless, the light goes 
off. Also, on my other laptop, there is a physical switch to turn off 
the transmitter. According to the manual, if the light is on, the 
wireless hardware is enabled (and I assume it could be transmitting), 
but it does not say how to disable it!

Murray
Jeremy Kiffiak wrote:
> Or if you want to do it via the CLI
>
> "sudo ifconfig eth1 down"
>
> I am guessing it's "eth1".
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 2009-07-16, at 12:31, Ronald Schouten <ron.schouten at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and I can right-click on the network-manager
>> applet and uncheck  wireless. Is that what you want?
>>
>> Ron
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> I am taking my eeePC on an air trip tomorrow, and I have not figured 
>>> out how to turn off the wireless. The F2 Hot Key does not work, and 
>>> I have not been able to find the appropriate setting, nor have I 
>>> been able to locate an answer using Google, or on the Ubuntu or 
>>> eeePC forums.
>>>
>>> Anyone know how to do this?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Murray