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

Tony Jose tonyjose at gmail.com
Wed Dec 1 16:52:57 EST 2010


Thanks Bill !!!

This is what I was looking for...let me give a shot....

-regards

TJ

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Bill Farrow <bill at arrowsreach.com> wrote:

> 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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Tony Jose



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