
9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
3:10 a.m.
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:33:15PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote:
Daniel Dalton wrote:
I was planning to disable wifi, when it wasn't required. On my old laptop I could use the rfkill package like so: rfkill block wifi
But it seems to have no effect on my Dell. The wifi hot key on the laptop does not seem to work either (from the console). Does anyone have any other ideas? If I do ifdown eth1 to bring down wifi, is it likely the wifi will still be consuming significant battery?
Some (esp. cheap) laptops have wifi and bt modules as simple dongles inside the case; you can open the case and physically unplug them.
Definitely, although I do use wifi fairly frequently, so the practicalities would probably outweigh the benefits... Cheers, Dan