On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 11:16:51PM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote: > I'm going to be travelling shortly, and I expect the airline won't be > happy if my iBook is emitting radio signals from the Airport card. Any > idea how I can turn the card off from inside Debian, or do I need to > remove it?
First, your airport card isn't going to interfere with anything related to flying the airplane. There's absolutely no science behind these in-flight electronics rules and it's all a bunch of rubish. It's the same form of rubbish that makes every gas station in california prohibit use of cell phones near the gas pumps, regardless of the giant whirling high-power electrical generator in every car. Sigh. The reason you can't use your cell phone in the plane is because it fucks up the terrestrial cellular network, not because it interferes with the avionics. Now that I have that off my chest... You can disable your airport card by simply commenting out this line in /etc/network interfaces: auto eth0 change it to # auto eth0 To bring the card up and down (for your nefarious terrorist activities, no doubt), use 'ifup eth0' and 'ifdown eth0'. See also 'man interfaces'. -jwb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
