Portland Linux/Unix Group General Meeting Announcement
Who: You!
What: UnPLUG: Metrics of Freedom
Where: Zoom, flawed as it is, link below
When: Thursday, March 3rd, 2022 at 7pm
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
The word "Freedom" has been pushed to its limits this last few years and
is
I assume that configuring a laptop for only wireless networking the Ethernet
configuration should be set for DHCP and all ethX ports left blank. Then
iwconfig is used (with wpa-supplement) to configure wlan0.
Have I missed anything?
Rich
> I assume that configuring a laptop for only wireless networking the
> Ethernet
> configuration should be set for DHCP and all ethX ports left blank. Then
> iwconfig is used (with wpa-supplement) to configure wlan0.
>
> Have I missed anything?
If you want to make sure you can blacklist the
> On Thu, 3 Mar 2022, a...@clueserver.org wrote:
>
>> If you want to make sure you can blacklist the ethernet drivers.
>
> Alan,
>
> I don't think that's necessary. If there's no cable in the eth port the
> kernwl won't look for one.
It still loads the driver. But yes, it is overkill.
Q: Why
On Thu, 3 Mar 2022, a...@clueserver.org wrote:
If you want to make sure you can blacklist the ethernet drivers.
Alan,
I don't think that's necessary. If there's no cable in the eth port the
kernwl won't look for one.
Thanks,
Rich
On 3/3/22 14:31, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I assume that configuring a laptop for only wireless networking the Ethernet
> configuration should be set for DHCP and all ethX ports left blank. Then
> iwconfig is used (with wpa-supplement) to configure wlan0.
>
> Have I missed anything?
>
> Rich
You don't
All you have to do is not plug in the ethernet cable.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 2:31 PM Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> I assume that configuring a laptop for only wireless networking the Ethernet
> configuration should be set for DHCP and all ethX ports left blank. Then
> iwconfig is used (with
