How to force NetworkManager to ignore a specific interface ( such as wireless ) ... and interface name change ?

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Fri Sep 21 05:49:25 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> Hi,
> 
> 1) I have decided to turn off wireless for awhile ( troubleshooting on
> the new kernel, as the new kernel seems to hang, etc.. ):
> 
> # cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
> # Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART
> DEVICE=eth1
> ONBOOT=no
> < ... snip ...>
> 
> Also decided to delete the wireles firmware files for my device (
> bcm43xx ) from /lib/firmware.

Leave the firmware, defeat the driver module loading instead.  In
/etc/modprobe.conf

install b43 /bin/true

-Andy




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