WiFi disable RPi3

DomieMic65

My first post here!
Hi to all and congratulations for your great distribution!

Is there a way to completely shut down the wifi module of the raspberry pi 3?

Thnx in advance!

hondagx35

Hi DomieMic65,

you have to modify the file "/etc/modprobe.d/disable_rpi3_wifi_bt.conf"

##wifi
#blacklist brcmfmac
#blacklist brcmutil
##bt
#blacklist btbcm
#blacklist hci_uart

##wifi
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmutil
##bt
#blacklist btbcm
#blacklist hci_uart

After this it is necessary to disable the wifi service

systemctl disable netctl-auto@wlan0

and reboot.

Frank

DomieMic65

Thank you very much Frank!!
I will try this evening!!

Sent from my Nexus 5X

DomieMic65

It worked just fine!!!!
Thank you very much!!!!

n8dgr84

Hi,

How do I access this file to edit?
I've created it on the sd card but to no avail.

Thanks

DomieMic65

n8dgr84 wroteHi,

How do I access this file to edit?
I've created it on the sd card but to no avail.

Thanks

With WinSCP.
You must install it on your computer and gain access to the Raspberry
You must also use PuTTy to give the commands.

n8dgr84

Ok I downloaded WinSCP.
Found RuneAudio IP
Login using standard ports
Login is "root"
PW is "rune"
Add code to the file as above.

Thanks

hondagx35

Hi,

to speed up boot process you should also do

hondagx35 wrote After this it is necessary to disable the wifi service

systemctl disable netctl-auto@wlan0

and reboot.

Frank

piero

Hello
I'm hanging on to this post even though it's old
I would like to disable the wifi, I did the procedure above, but once I do the Reboot it restores the whole folder without the changes made and the wifi remains active.
Any ideas?
Raspberry pi 3 + runeaudio 0.4(beta 20160323)

R101

piero,

Changing the content of /etc/modprobe.d/disable_rpi3_wifi_bt.conf to:

##wifi
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmutil
##bt
blacklist btbcm
blacklist hci_uart

will disable wifi and bluetooth.

piero

Yes
I followed the procedure.
With root user I modified the file, saved
Executed reboot

When the system restarts
I find the file restored to the original and the wifi active

AndyF

Hi piero,

another - different - solution:

Add

dtoverlay=disable-wifi

to your /boot/config.txt - file.
Reboot - Wifi is gone.

regards, Andy

piero

Same strange behavior
After the reboot the modified files are restored

I'm starting to think about a problem with the memory card

R101

Have you re-opened the files after saving, to check the changes have really been saved?

piero

Yes
I also made a backup of the original file
cp disable_rpi3_wifi_bt.conf disable_rpi3_wifi_bt.conf.orig

After reboot the conf file has lost the changes, and the orig file has been deleted

Thank you very much for your interest!

R101

How are you making these changes? Are you using ssh and nano, or putting the SD card in another computer?

I think there is software that recognises .orig files, so it might be safer to use something else - or just remember that every line started with a #. Otherwise, it looks almost as if your files are being restored from a backup, somehow.

piero

I used an ssh client

Since I installed runeaudio the only changes I have made concern the addition of webradio and the configurations to use the digi+ card

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