On 08/03/17 11:23, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Peter,
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_network_configuration
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. My PCI ID is 10ec:b723
and various postings suggest modifying /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8273be.conf.
I think you mean /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf with the 2 and 7
transposed. :-)
This file does not exist. Do I need to create one and if so how?
Yes, it's quite normal for it not to exist; that means no options are
being changed by default.
It depends how much text you have to put in the file. If it's just a
few words then a common way is
echo these are the words | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf
sudo will ask for your user's password so it can become the root user
and have sufficient permissions to create the file in that directory.
tee does the work of creating the file, copying its standard input to
both its standard output, so you'll see `these are the words' appear on
the screen, and its arguments.
You can do just the echo command without the `| ...' to check they look
OK on the screen first. You can also view the file once it's been
created to ensure it has the right contents, e.g. `cat
/etc/modprobe.d/rtl8723be.conf'.
If you have problems, a link to what guidance you are following would be
useful.
Cheers, Ralph.
I have finally got round to investigating properly. The answer is to
blacklist acer_wmi and can be found at
https://askubuntu.com/questions/98702/how-to-unblock-something-listed-in-rfkill.
Cheers, Peter.
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