On 18/03/14 12:49, CS_DBA wrote:
On 03/17/2014 05:27 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/18/14 07:20, CS_DBA wrote:
If I get a USB wifi dongle how do I go about telling my system to NOT
use the built in 7260 and use the dongle instead?
Usually you can disable the on-board wireless of a laptop in either
the BIOS or a physical switch on the laptop.
Also any advice per usb dongle wifi compatibility?
Google would be your friend in that regard.... One link would be
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Devices/USB
As I mentioned earlier, best to buy products that are not newly
released as linux support often lags.
I found a dongle on the list at a local microcenter... cannot find any
info on how to turn the built in wifi off, nothing obvious in the bios,
no HW switch other than the Fn-F8 which does not work...
Any ideas on how I could disable it via Fedora?
I had (I think) a similar problem and was advised (by "poma") to use
"blacklist":
(1) Issue the command "lspci -knn".
(2) Find the line with "WiFi Adapter" in it.
(3) A couple of lines below that there should be a line like:
Kernel driver in use: rtl8192ce
(That was what showed up when I did it.) The key bit of information is
the string "rtl8192ce".
(4) As *root* create a file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-rtl8192ce.conf
(replace the string "rtl8192ce" by whatever you got out of the "lspci
-knn" exercise).
(5) Edit this file as *root* and add the line
blacklist rtl8192ce
(replacing the string "rtl8192ce" with the string that is appropriate in
your case).
(6) Save the file; exit from your editor; re-boot.
Take all this advice with a grain of salt; I don't really know what I'm
talking about. Just giving the recipe for what I did in what I *think*
were similar circumstances.
My apologies if this advice is incorrect or misleading or if it
completely misses the point.
Good luck.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
P. S. I was/am running Fedora 17; I forget what version you are using
(or if you even specified the version) but presumably it is more
up-to-date than mine. If so, that could have an impact on the
appropriateness of my advice.
R. T.
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