wireless Deactivate script
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Feb 20 22:27:19 UTC 2008
Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
>>>> If you create an ifdown-wireless script, it should get called
>>>> automatically. You can look at the /sbin/ifdown script to see what
>>>> script it looks for, and when they are run.
>>> Your suggestion didn't work, because near the bottom of /sbin/ifdown it
>>> had:
>>> DEVICE = wlan0
>>> DEVICETYPE = eth
>>> whereas in order to work as indicated, it needed:
>>> DEVICETYPE=wireless
>> Maybe you need to say "TYPE=wireless" in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 ?
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
> already has "TYPE=Wireless" (note cap),
> and this does not appear where needed
> above.
OK - it was only a guess ...
Incidentally, as far as I can see, capitals don't matter here.
Eg "MODE=Managed" and "MODE=managed" seem to have the same effect.
--
Timothy Murphy
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