[TriLUG] Live CD :: How to disable wireless support

[Bill Farrow]

Hi,
You could delete all of the kernel modules for the wireless network
cards.  These are typically located in a dir under /lib/modules/...

  rm -rf /lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/

This would prevent the kernel from recognizing and using any wireless
cards, including USB dongles.

The user could always download their own modules and restore wireless
access.  If you need to make it even more difficult, then you will
have to build a custom kernel without wireless support and use that on
the LiveCD.

Bill

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Tony Jose <tonyjose at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am using Fedora distro..
>
> -tj
>
> 2010/12/1 Cristóbal Palmer <cmp at cmpalmer.org>
>
>> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:59 PM, Tony Jose <tonyjose at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > I am in the process of creating a LIVE CD without wireless support due to
>> > security reasons. Which are packages to remove during the build ?
>>
>> Which distro is this? Is there a consistent hardware platform this
>> will be running on? If so, you could remove drivers for the specific
>> wireless device(s) fairly quickly.
>>
>> I'm on Ubuntu, and this seems like a good place to start if I wanted
>> to kill my wireless:
>>
>> $ dpkg -l wireless-tools |grep ^ii
>> ii  wireless-tools                            30~pre9-3ubuntu4
>>                       Tools for manipulating Linux Wireless
>> Extensions
>>
>> Cheers,
>> --
>> Cristóbal M. Palmer
>> ibiblio.org systems
>> UNC Chapel Hill
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