No auto-enable WiFi at boot

[Tab Gilbert]

Could you not use Startup Applications under Preferences?  Turn off Network
Manager.  It should stop the machine from accessing the wifi provided you
turned it off before firing up your laptop on the plane.

tab

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 21:56, Matt Harrison <matt.harrison82 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:30 PM, David N. Lombard <dnl at speakeasy.net>
> wrote:
> > I have an Acer Aspire One D150 running UNR 9.04.  All is well in
> > general.  My problem is the radio is brought up at boot and a connection
> > is always attempted.  I'd like to use the netbook on a plane, but I
> > can't unless I can disable the radio.  There's no hardware radio switch.
> >
> > Ideally, I'd have a grub boot line that disabled the radio--sort of an
> > "airline mode boot".  Barring that, I'll be happy disabling the
> > auto-radio-init and a way to manually turn the radio on.  Any
> suggestions?
> >
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> Do you happen to have the ability to turn the radio off with softkeys?
>  Normally some combination of the FN button and one of the F keys,
> like on my EeePC it is FN + F2.
>
> HTH
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