On 12/24/25 1:50 PM, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/24/25 06:19, Richard Owlett wrote:
I have an essentially default install of Debian 12.8 with MATE and
SeaMonkey.
How do I disable WiFi?
How do I disable Bluetooth?
TIA
Depending upon how the hardware is connected into the system, there may
be a motherboard Setup setting and/or a POST ROM extension utility
setting for enabling and disabling either or both.
More searching yesterday turned up a three year old post of mine about
my machine [ Dell Latitude E6410 ] having a mechanical WiFi switch that
I hadn't found for which I couldn't find adequate documentation.
If you disable WiFi and Bluetooth at the hardware level, they will no
longer be visible to the OS and they should be gracefully omitted from
the OS network software stack. If you later want one or both, enable
them at the hardware level and they should be gracefully present and
functional in the OS network software stack.
David
