wireless always on
 

Hi all.

I have a notebook running ipw2200. The wireless functionality works fine, however I am unable to turn the wireless off unless I unload the module.

If I press the wireless button nothing happens.

Any ideas?
Thanks

wireless button, you mean on the keyboard of your laptop?
Well.. this is likely to be _software_ button (mean the button call the windoze xp driver that call some windoze xp function) so it won't work in linux unless you map it somehow to a script or program.

What is "ifconfig wlan0 down" (or eth0 or wifi0 or whatever the device name) is doing?

Hi elf,

Thanks for your reply. The button isn't on the keyboard of my laptop, it is on the front, it is a button which is used only for turning the wireless on/off. It is not part of the keyboard. However it doesn't do anything.

I have another notebook, a different model and the button works fine on that one.

I don't mind if I have to map the button. Do you have any places you can point me to so I can figure out how to do that? I haven't done that before?

Thanks alot.

Regards
Craig

That button isn't necessary really. As Half-elf points out, you've got a simple software solution... in term type:

ifconfig <iface> down

If you're not already root, you'll prolly have to 'su' first

If you don't already know what your interface is, simply type:

iwconfig

This will list all interfaces, and identifies which are wireless as the ones with a status other than "no wireless extensions".

LR

Thanks alot guys.

The software solution works for me.

Thanks again
Craig