Re: Laptop safe for flight in planes?
On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:42:49 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> my former Laptop had no internal WLAN card so I was safe that it is no
> source of any radio frequencies. But my new laptop has a cantrino chip
> with WLAN and I will go for a quite long flight. How can I ENSURE that
> the WLAN module is completely silent? Is it enough to use a Kernel which
> just does not contain the WLAN modules?
Many modern laptops have a physical switch to turn off the wireless
network device. Not loading the kernel module should do it also, but
I'm only guessing from the fact that on mine I get no lights, and
nothing else in the room can see the wireless card if the module isn't
loaded.
Cheers,
Al.
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