So far I have received no useful responses to my question (given
below). However I have
recently seen in another thread a considerable amount of discussion of
something called
"systemctl". This sounds like it *might* do what I want. However
looking at the man page
for systemctl leaves just as ignorant as when I started. It's way over
my head. Can someone
tell me:
(a) Would systemctl do what I want, i.e. serve to disable (mask?)
the internal WiFi card?
(b) Would it be possible to disable/mask the internal WiFi card but
leave the USB WiFi device
available, so that I can actually get a WiFi connection?
(c) If the answers to (a) and (b) are "Yes", then could some kind
soul please guide me as
to the syntax to use in calling upon systemctl? In particular, how
do I specify what it is that
I want disabled/masked in such a way that systemctl will understand
what I'm talking about?
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On 28/07/13 08:42, Rolf Turner wrote:
I have a Toshiba Satellite L850 Laptop for which the WiFi card appears
to be incompatible
with any drivers available for Linux. To try to get around this
problem I recently purchased
a USB WiFi device: An ASUS USB-N110. They (ASUS) provide drivers
which one must
install. After a great deal of travail and fumbling around (the
instructions were both unclear
--- apparently written by someone for whom English was at best a
*third* language ---
and slightly misleading) I managed to get the device *partially* working.
The device appears to work immediately after boot-up but if I close
the lid of my laptop,
(which causes it to go into hibernation (???) mode) or if I log out
and log back in,
the WiFi connection gets lost. When I try to restore the connection
it seems to keep
trying to use the WiFi card that is built into the laptop rather than
the USB WiFi device.
(And the built-in device doesn't work; as I said, its drivers are
incompatible with Linux OSes.
Which is why I bought the USN-N10 in the first place.) The only way
to get the laptop to
make use of the USB WiFi device seems to be to shut down and restart.
This is unsatisfactory.
Is there any way to "disable" the (non-functional) built-in WiFi card
so that the laptop will
*not* try to use it but will rather go straight to the (functional)
USB device? I Googled around
a bit and found some instructions for disabling the built-in WiFi card
under Ubuntu, but
these instruction did not (as far as I could tell) mesh with the
Fedora system that I am
running. Can anyone tell me how to do what I want under Fedora?
If you reply, ***PLEASE*** be as clear and explicit as you possibly
can. I am not terribly
swift with OS matters. I know and understand ***some*** things, but
there are huge
lacunae in my knowledge.
I am running Fedora 17; output of "uname -a" is:
Linux localhost.localdomain 3.3.4-5.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon May 7
17:29:34 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Thanks for any help that anyone can give me.
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