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Description of problem: Network manager has no way of disabling one of my wireless cards at a time. I put it down with Ifconfig and NetworkManager brings it back up. Annoying as hell when you want to put the card in Promiscuous mode. I type ifconfig and the pop up window with cancel/connect buttons takes focus, I re-click in gnome-terminal and type wlan2 and the NM window takes focus, type down and, etc. Release number of selected component (if applicable): NetworkManager-0.9.1.90-3.git20110927.fc15.x86_64 How reproducible: Every such attempt over the last several months. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start Gnome-3. Runlevel 3 is great. 2. 3. Actual results: Described above, additionally I yell swear and become quite apoplectic. My neighbours probably suspect me of mental illness. Expected results: I ought to be able to turn the damnable thing off. Additional info: The only thing to turn off in the gnome interface is networking overall.
There are several ways how to disable or ignore WiFi or interfaces in NM, depending on what you want: 1. you can disable wireless, which will soft-block Wi-Fi interface via RFKill - either right-click on nm-applet and uncheck "Enable Wireless" - set Wireless to OFF in GnomeShell indicator - nmcli nm wifi off 2. if you want NM don't auto-connect, you have to edit your Wi-Fi connection profiles so that they are not marked for auto-connection. Or you can explicitly disconnect the interface and it won't auto-connect until next explicit connection will be made. You can disconnect using GUI or from command line: nmcli dev disconnect wlan0 3. say NM not to manage particular interface - add NM_CONTROLLED=no to your ifcfg-wlan2 (or whatever file you use) 4. disable NM and manage network via legacy 'network' service I guess, 2. or 3. is what you want.
Thanks, but disabling the adapter is not what I have in mind, just using it for a non-NetworkManager process. I have two adapters in the computer, I ought to be able to do different things with them. A workaround is to put the commands in a script, which does work. I guess I'll erase it and use WICD instead.
With NetworkManager-0.9.2-1.fc16, if you have more than one wifi adapter, there is the option to either disable all wireless or you can disable individual adapters. Then you can do whatever you want with the adapter and NM will ignore it.
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