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#1 2019-11-06 18:18:08

ENF
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[SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

Is there a method to disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters via the terminal or GUI?

I searched the web for, "How do I disable my wifi adapter in Arch Linux?" and procured no relevant results.

Additionally, I searched the web for, "How do I disable my bluetooth adapter in Arch Linux?" and got a few links to the Arch Forum, but the solutions are not
completely relevant to my query.

I would like to learn a method to not only disable the service, but to completely disengage the hardware (Wi-Fi and Bluetooth adapters) from the OS.

Last edited by ENF (2019-12-29 23:31:41)

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#2 2019-11-06 18:55:34

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?


No, it didn't "fix" anything. It just shifted the brokeness one space to the right. - jasonwryan
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#3 2019-11-06 22:37:26

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

Find out what modules are used by your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, by for example, command: 'lspci -k' and blacklist it: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ke … acklisting

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#4 2019-11-06 23:03:19

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

https://www.solderconnection.com/p634/M … ystem.html

tongue

In all seriousness, what is the goal?  Security? Power?


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#5 2019-11-07 00:53:13

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

While soldering was intended as a joke, if the concern is security related, then unplugging the relevant hardware would be an option to consider (no soldering needed, but opening the case often is).  Anything you do from software could be undone via software.

Certainly there are things that may need root access to be done and then (barring other significant security issues) would also need root access to undo: unloading the modules would be an example of this.  However, if these solutions are sufficient for your needs, and the issue is security, then there may be better options such as only allowing root to access these bits of hardware (which is the "default" state anyhow).

In other words, if the concern is that any process with root access could access these devices, then unloading modules will not help as those same processes could simply reload the modules.

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#6 2019-11-07 01:15:25

loqs
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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

What about using the sysctl kernel.modules_disabled=1 to stop module loading? [1]
Which I believe can not be reversed without a reboot.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ke … d299162ea1

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#7 2019-11-08 13:24:25

ENF
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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

ewaller wrote:

https://www.solderconnection.com/p634/M … ystem.html

tongue

In all seriousness, what is the goal?  Security? Power?


Hahaha :] I wouldn't mind removing the hardware, but I may have a need for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth with my secondary OS.


I am concerned about security.

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#8 2019-11-08 13:33:38

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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

Thank you:

Slithery
xerxes_
ewaller
Trilby
loqs

I appreciate the help. You folk are quite awesome smile

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#9 2019-11-08 14:03:31

seth
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Re: [SOLVED] How do I disable my Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Adapters?

ENF wrote:

The primary reason for this concern is actually health related. If you are curious, research the topic of RF radiation as well as EMF radiation and the affects on the human body. Just a fair warning: there is a lot of disinformation regarding these topics on the web.

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