On 27 Apr, this message from Jeffrey Baker echoed through cyberspace: > 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.
I tend to disagree for the cell phones specifically, but other than that (like cdroms) you are probably right. > You can disable your airport card by simply commenting out this line > in /etc/network interfaces: > > auto eth0 > > change it to > > # auto eth0 Note that for me, airport is eth1 (I have gmac compiled-in for the built-in ethernet). So make sure you get the right interface. Aside from that detail, yes, keeping the interface unconfigured should power it down. That's as good a removing the card ;-). If you want to be absolutely sure, compile airport support as a module and remove the module when not in use. Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
