If you're like me and you use notebook or netbook know exactly how sucks to that every time the system turned on, you will be asked to enter a password to connect to the Wireless Internet. In addition, actually wasting system resources and energy, which is especially important if you are shopping battery. It's much more practical to have ability to enable wireless manually, only when needed.
This tip can be very useful because many people do not buy a laptop just to get greater mobility, but for a small space they occupy. Others may have a connection cable at home and only use wifi when they leave.
In short, reasons can be many. However, disable wireless by default, in my view, the best option in all case. Only makes sense to leave activated if at any time you have access to cable connections. Unfortunately, Ubuntu always connected to Wifi, no matter whether they connect to the Internet via a cable connection. No nobody in this world might think this is logical. Let's see how fix this problem.
Steps ...
Open your favorite text editor (gedit, nano, Leafpad, etc.). After opening Paste this code:
WirelessEnabled variant: boolean: false
In case you're wondering, this command You can run it from the terminal. wifi automatically disabled. For reactivate replace "false" to "true."
But back to our mini-tute for the deadly wifi every time the system boot, once hit her code, save the file to the HOME or wherever you please with the name You like. I choose to disable the "Wifi. Then I open Nautilus, browse to the file and click right on it. Select Properties. On the tab Permissions, select Allow to run the file as a program.
When finished, go to System Preferences>> Application on startup. Click the Add button. In Your name could put something precisely describes how to disable wireless. In a set of files orders. / Disable or path-Fi where you saved. In comments good to write some small thing serves as a reference. Both are: Disable Wireless on startup.
Finally, you can restart, Not sure if a simple logout but I think was reached. Finally, you will be able to verify that the system will ask password that you wireless is disabled and all we are doing this without uninstalling Manager Network.
To activate the connection in case need it, you just need to right click the Network Manager icon and select Activate wireless. To disable it, you should follow the same procedure.
In addition to not uninstall Network Manager, as suggested by other legislation to turn off wireless, or affect the security of the system (with no requested the option to disable password connect to the Internet via Wifi). Of course, now the password prompt when we connect via the wireless manually.
0 Comments:
Post a Comment