Disable wifi and blueooth on Pi3

[tboooe]

Just got my Pi3 and starting messing around with Rune as a renderer on my network getting music from Minimserver. So far so good! Going to be adding Digi+ board soon. Here is my noob question...what is best way to disable Wifi and Bluetooth? I am after the absolute best sound quality so I want to disable all unnecessary services. The only thing I have found from another forum is to blacklist loading of the Wifi and Bluetooth drivers (see below). Is there a better way?

/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

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

[hondagx35]

Hi tboooe,

Is there a better way?

Yes. Desolder the components

/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

The file already exists on your Pi, you only have to remove the #.

Frank

[rastus]

Is there a better way?

Yes. Desolder the components

LoL @ hondagx35, is it really that bad? As soon as I heard about the built-in WiFi and Bluetooth I thought.... mmmmm no, not good.

[andre_chang]

/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

I can't find this file......

Can teach me how to put the PI3 in the disable WiFi... I want to use the external WiFi usb!
What should I do?

Thank you

andre

[PeteB]

Hi Andre,

The file is called /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
(because Arch and Raspbian often use different files and directories)

I think you have to create that file, if you do not have it already. For example open it in the editor:

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nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

then type or paste in what you want, and save it.

edit:

Also, see this post by Frank, the official answer to disabling the onboard wifi and bluetooth:

http://www.runeaudio.com/forum/post13076.html?hilit=disable%20bluetooth#p13079

Pete

[piknik]

/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

I can't find this file......

Can teach me how to put the PI3 in the disable WiFi... I want to use the external WiFi usb!
What should I do?

Thank you

andre

On my RPI3 the file is named: /etc/modprobe.d/disable_rpi3_wifi_bt.conf

[andre_chang]

/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

I can't find this file......

Can teach me how to put the PI3 in the disable WiFi... I want to use the external WiFi usb!
What should I do?

Thank you

andre

On my RPI3 the file is named: /etc/modprobe.d/disable_rpi3_wifi_bt.conf

hi:piknik
Success!
thank you

[Dohmar]

Incidentally, the audio section of the pi is isolated from the networking hardware. As seen in another thread, people seem to be worried about this for no reason aside from voodoo/superstition. If the environment you're in has lots of RF interference, the board >may< pick it up, >if< its on a resonant frequency that either of the wireless modes run on, or the ethernet cable acting as an antenna.

I'm willing to bet that people listening in a double blind comparison between wireless turned on or off will not notice a difference.
If you notice a problem, then its worth investigating, however doing something based upon a worst-case-theory seems pointless to me.

-D