Hi.

I started a bug report to request a way to disable wlan/wifi but I think I'm 
better writing here first: my inability to disable wlan/wifi is becoming a 
security issue for me here (I'm still learning how to use the Bugzilla web 
interface).

Long story short: wifi never goes away. Please help.

I disable the services I don't use since ages. Never stopped to think about 
wifi use until I needed it recently, though. So I thought that if I don't 
configure it stays out of use (waiting for a configuration). But I found that 
it's always used if it was found, and the drive loads a default configuration 
if not said otherwise. Both the default configuration (that is wrong for my 
side of the planet) and the default on option is an issue for me. The default 
on is an issue because it created an interface that went unobserved until it 
was needed.

When the wifi drive is loaded it loads the wlan stack and configures the 
hardware. And because I'm not on USA the default configuration is not right for 
me. More than that, the drive is both a little unstable and a little limited. 
My keyboard has a key combination to disable wifi but the drive (urtw on 
FreeBSD 12) don't have an option to be disabled. That said, I expect to not 
create a storm when I do my request. I think this is a security issue because 
this enables exploits of the wireless/network stacks without administrator 
intervention.

All this been said, I still need to say that I'm about to move and this 
computer will probably stay off for a long time after that.

Lc

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