wifi card on/off (solved)

[Yankee]

Hello,

Am trying to find a command to turn the wifi card off when not in use
similar to the Fn-F2 command in Windows.  Tried "ifconfig wlan0 down"
but it didn't work.  Is there a network manager that has this command
built in ?

Thanks,

Patrick

[DeBaas]

Reserve some time and Google for linux rf_kill

[Yankee]

There has to be a better way to get this thing on and off.   I'll
never get these console commands and scripts to work right.


Patrick

[Yue]

Perhaps u could try with this app.

[macuira]

Well, I have a Fujitsu Siemens laptop and Fn+F2 works here in PCLinuxOS 2009 fully updated, in a couple of weeks I'm gonna install 2010. See this thread http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,65958.0.html

[Yankee]

This has been solved.   The keys need to be pressed down one at a time
not at the same time.  When doing so the Wlan0 goes on and off.

Thanks,

Patrick