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AnotherUser:
My laptop has bluetooth hardware which I am not using. According to
--- Quote ---ps -elf |grep bluetoothd
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the daemon is running. I cannot find a service which starts it at boot time. How can I disable it from starting at all?

russell.eberhardt:
Does it get listed if you go to PCC > Network & Internet > Remove a connection?

Russell.

AnotherUser:

--- Quote from: russell.eberhardt on December 25, 2012, 08:01:27 AM ---Does it get listed if you go to PCC > Network & Internet > Remove a connection?

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No, it does not. The only listed interfaces are eth0 and wlan0 which are my hard wired and wireless ethernet interfaces respectively.

JohnW_57:
Guess you need blacklist the driver/module in /etc/modprobe.conf (If I'm correct?)

Code: blacklist driver/module name (must be done as su).

From a another site:


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    Note: blacklisting will not work for modules which are built into the kernel image (i.e. not loaded via a separate .ko file. The only way to disable such modules is via a kernel parameter (if available) or by recompiling the kernel.

Just open your /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file and add drivername using following syntax:

blacklist driver-name

Reboot your box and use lsmod command to show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

Note: here driver-name is the name of your desired blacklist driver. For example, If you wanted to disable the NIC card driver, you can find the name of kernel driver for your LAN card by using the command lspci -v command in a terminal.
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JohnW

AnotherUser:

--- Quote from: JohnW_57 on December 25, 2012, 10:39:18 AM ---Guess you need blacklist the driver/module in /etc/modprobe.conf (If I'm correct?)

Code: blacklist driver/module name (must be done as su).

JohnW

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which driver needs to be blacklisted? If I run
--- Code: ---smod |grep blue
bluetooth             134084  23 rfcomm,bnep,btusb
rfkill                 12586  4 bluetooth,cfg80211,dell_laptop
crc16                   1069  2 bluetooth,ext4

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This would seem to imply that I need to blacklist bluetooth, rfkill, crc16, btusb, etc ... It seems like a long list

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