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

[Tony Jose]

Hello

Can any body suggest how to create custom kernel without wireless support ?
-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