I don't know about you people but I F-ing hate WIFI and would never have it in my place of business. I hate EMF waves. I hate cell phones. They're all designed for mind control purposes and to cook your brains. They give me tinnitus galore.
However it can be a necessary evil from time to time while travelling. If you have an atheros wireless card here's how to disable it or at least turn the light that suppose mean off OFF on AN Hewlett Packard laptop.
Back to trying to interpret this reasonably recent thread
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1579241 from someone who was in a similar situation as me:
Anyways, to make a long story short here's what I've done and I hope I don't fubar this because I'd really like to surf wireless with Linux and not Windows when I do use wireless:
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
COPY,PASTE THIS text into a basic file called blacklist.conf
Quote:
#this blacklists the ath5k driver of internal Atheros AR-5001 miniPCI adapter to avoid interference with bandwidth or speed of external wireless N cards. Do NOT blacklist yenta_cardbus otherwise your PCMCIA wireless adapter will not work!
blacklist ath5k
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into
sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
RE-START YOUR COMPUTER.
IF YOU HAVE AN HP NOTEBOOK YOU'LL GET SOMETHING LIKE THIS LIT UP ON YOUR SCREEN:
http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/7...urdisabled.jpg
Which means Mark Hurd is no longer groping your daughter with his machines. (joke)
