Re: How can I disable my laptop's internal wireless adapter?
The strict answer to your question is to determine what the driver is from the terminal:
Code:
sudo lshw -C network
It will report something like:
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Advanced-N 6200
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 35
serial: xx:94:6b:99:55:xx
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes
driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.11.0-18-generic firmware=9.221.4.1 build 25532 ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
resources: irq:42 memory:f2400000-f2401fff
Then blacklist what you found:
Code:
sudo -i
echo "blacklist iwlwifi" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
exit
Of course, substitute your details here. Reboot and you'll be all set.
The real answer is to troubleshoot the internal device and see if we can fix it. If you'd like to do so, tell us the information you found from above.
"Oh, Ubuntu, you are my favorite Linux-based operating system" --Dr. Sheldon Cooper, B.Sc., M.Sc., M.A., Ph.D., Sc.D.
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