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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Simeon Nifos <archwndas@googlemail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: deactivating one of the two wireless connections
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 17:43:45 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110921174345.4411d098@mj> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E73FC9A.8090901@lwfinger.net>

On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:49:14 -0500
Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> wrote:

> Downing the interface is a perfectly good solution. If you want to
> minimize the power usage, you can unload the driver for the built-in
> wireless adapter using "modprobe -r" to disable it. If you never want
> to use it, then blacklist that driver.

It's also possible to mark the device as unmanaged:
http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/SystemSettings

That's a good solution if the interface needs to be used occasionally
for things like sniffing or driver testing.

It would be a great if the future versions of NetworkManager allowed
users to select (in GUI) which interfaces are used.  Using all possible
interfaces in not always the best solution.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

      reply	other threads:[~2011-09-21 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-17  1:33 deactivating one of the two wireless connections Simeon Nifos
2011-09-17  1:49 ` Larry Finger
2011-09-21 21:43   ` Pavel Roskin [this message]

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