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Tazza

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Registered: 2025-06-17

Posts: 2

Let me disable WIFI altogther.. what am I missing?

Slackware user since '96... on and off Gentoo on different boxes, but Slackware has been a constant. I've obviously dabbled in the usual suspects to see what is about; never as my main - mainly so I can recommend things to others (got my 77 year old Aunt into Linux on Mint and she's now 86 and still loves it).

I wanted to try Arch as the early intermediate distro is it, because frankly after nearly 30 years of having no true package manager and no dependency resolution I wanted something simple... thus.. Arch!

I disable wifi directly via the usual route.. (for Netcomm 192.168.20.1) but it keeps getting turned on again. This is the exact sort of 'ease of use' (as in 'we will tell you what you want') that I despise. Neither Slackware nor Gentoo keep switching it on even after I've turned it off at the router itself.  Who am I kidding - they don't even care or know if you have wifi until you let them know. The router is connected via ethernet to a 1 gigabit connection which is then connected via ethernet cable to one of my PC's - I don't need wireless crap at all!

I'm sure there is some simple explanation and would greatly appreciate a response.

-thc

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Registered: 2017-03-15

Posts: 905

Re: Let me disable WIFI altogther.. what am I missing?

When you install Arch via Installation guide you (probably) installed a network management - this in turn may configure/activate (per it's own defaults) the WiFi device - but even then this WiFi interface still doesn't know your WiFi credentials.

So how did you land in this situation and what network management do you use?

dakota

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Registered: 2016-05-20

Posts: 389

Re: Let me disable WIFI altogther.. what am I missing?

I disable wifi directly via the usual route.. (for Netcomm 192.168.20.1) but it keeps getting turned on again.

How did you 'disable' it?

How do you know it is 'getting turned on again'?

Cheers,

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