Re: Laptop safe for flight in planes?

[briand@aracnet.com]

>>>>> "Sean" == Sean Perry <shaleh@speakeasy.net> writes:

  Sean> Andreas Tille 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?
  >> 

  Sean> yep, no module loaded, no active wireless.

Is that really true ?  Isn't it possible that the hardware might come
up in a minimally useful state, i.e. receive mode, looking for
packets.  It should be very unlikely, but since there is no software
in control without a module loaded, you really can't be sure.

Brian