How to disable wifi?

[davemmclaughlin]

How do you disable the WiFi permanently?

I have tried to select this as OFF in the network settings but every time it reboots, it's back on.

I am using wired Ethernet only and having the WiFi active at the same time causes the SSH to become really sluggish and external calls to wget fail.

[Joseph Herrera]

Hi Dave,

In the Wicd Network Manager, you could try unchecking the "Automatically connect to this network" or "Never connect to this network" on the list of available connections.

There is also a preference tab in Wicd manager, where you can check/uncheck options like:
- Always switch to a wired connection..
- Automatically recobbect on network connection loss..
- Never Connect

Could you also try commands like this one?

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down

from: How To Disable Your Network
http://www.upubuntu.com/2012/01/how-...k-adapter.html

This forum post might also be helpful:

Disable WiFi (wlan0) on Pi 3
http://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com...-wlan0-on-pi-3

Hope this helps,

[davemmclaughlin]

In Wicd manager I set the WIFI to OFF but on a reboot it is enabled again. I'll try some of the other ideas.

[davemmclaughlin]

For reference, editing /etc/rc.local and adding the following line works.

sudo ifconfig wlan0 down