Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Alan Corey
Yes, I uninstalled network manager and wicd from synaptic, should have mentioned that. Especially don't trust wicd. If you rename your /etc/network/interfaces file to something else as a backup, then make a new one that's like: --- auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0

Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 10 January 2017 14:13:41 Alan Corey wrote: > man interfaces, change /etc/network/interfaces > > ifdown wlan0 > should bring it down in the short term That gave no perms errors, I tried to edit it w/o removeing the chattr +i attribute, fixed and +i restored. Otherwise a reboot destro

Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:25 AM, 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. I hope I don't drift too far... I was able to crash a couple of iPads a few years ago with an

Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Alan Corey
ts. >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Gene Heskett [mailto:ghesk...@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

Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
ng 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:ghesk...@shentel.net] > Sent: January-10-17 9:19 AM > To: debian-arm@lists.debian.org > Subj

Re: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Alan Corey
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

RE: How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Jim MacKenzie
bject: 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 ot

How do I turn the radio in a pi 3b off

2017-01-10 Thread Gene Heskett
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