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i have ubuntu lucid 10.04 on netbook. network manager applet setup works great usb broadband modem. network manager doesn't support ad-hoc networks card. wish use /etc/network/interfaces file configure wireless network. therefore need disable wireless aspect of network manager applet. when right click , untick "enable wireless" box disables temporarily. enabled again on reboot.

wish disable "enable wireless" permanently.

following code on command line disables wireless:

dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=org.freedesktop.networkmanager /org/freedesktop/networkmanager org.freedesktop.dbus.properties.set string:org.freedesktop.networkmanager string:wirelessenabled variant:boolean:false


there way of putting bootup script gets read before /etc/network/interfaces file? or there simpler solution.



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