Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off
man interfaces, change /etc/network/interfaces
ifdown wlan0
should bring it down in the short term
On 1/10/17, Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 January 2017 10:25:09 Jim MacKenzie wrote:
>
>> If you don't have an access point configured on your WiFi radio, your
>> radio will listen only, and never reply, hence there is no
>> vulnerability.
>>
>> Jim
>
> Thats no doubt true, but when the neighbor is printing a long job, thats
> a lot of traffic to ignore, so I'd much druther have it powered down and
> generating zero interrupts.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:gheskett@shentel.net]
>> Sent: January-10-17 9:19 AM
>> To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org
>> Subject: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off
>>
>> Greetings all;
>>
>> How do I turn the radio off, completely off, in a pi 3b? I have no use
>> for it to be on, inviting a "drive by" attack or wasting cpu cycles.
>>
>> An iw wlan0 scan finds as many as a dozen signals, one quite a bit
>> stronger than the others call's its SSID: "Fbi surveillance van." I
>> even catch the next door neighbors hp printer.
>>
>> Thank you all.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett
>> --
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>
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
>
>
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