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Van

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 4

How to turn off the ethernet card ? [solved]

Hi everybody.

I've the following problem :

My computer works normally with the ethernet link câble, but when I unplug it, the archlinux freeze some seconds later.
Of course if I stop the "Network" daemon, I can remove the link safely.

The computer freeze with Wicd too in the same conditions, moreover the freeze happens for the live CD and others distributions of linux.

So I think it comes from the ethernet card.
I have no idea how I can make that card is fully disabled at boot, can somebody teach me about it ?

(I searched for the internet for a long time now, but I didn't found satisfying result.)

Thanks.

Last edited by Van (2011-11-16 23:13:09)

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

Posts: 1,247

Re: How to turn off the ethernet card ? [solved]

What type of ethernet card do you have and what driver do you use for it?

Van

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 4

Re: How to turn off the ethernet card ? [solved]

The card is :
07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8152 v2.0 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)

For the driver I don't know, I never installed anything, only the default one from the live install CD. (the last version from agust 2011)

Do you have an idea ?

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

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Re: How to turn off the ethernet card ? [solved]

I'm no expert, but a google tells me it could be atl1c. I anticipate the module will show up if you run something along the lines of,

lsmod | grep atl

When I STFW, I find results telling me to try removing (and/or blacklisting) the appropriate module.

Van

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Registered: 2011-11-16

Posts: 4

Re: How to turn off the ethernet card ? [solved]

Okay thank you very much, I just tried "lsmod | grep atl", and it is really "atl1c" used.

Now I'm trying to blacklist it and I will come back to edit this post for saying if it works.

Edit : Yes it works ! Hum, or more exactly : the not working of the ethernet card works. ;o)
Once again, thanks a lot. Now I can use wlan only with the computer.

Problem solved.

Last edited by Van (2011-11-16 23:12:06)

/dev/zero

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2011-10-20

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Re: How to turn off the ethernet card ? [solved]

Good! We both learned something :-)