Saturday, September 25, 2010

Ubuntu 10.10 Stop Wireless AutoConnect@Startup.

I don't know about you but I hate when I boot into Ubuntu 10.10 and it wants to connect to everyone. I'm hard wired and currently working on getting injection to work properly on the Ubuntu side for my wireless, any way this little bash script is useful.

sudo chmod 755 /path/to/sh.script 

throw it into startup applications.

#!/bin/bash

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

Note: This only applies to having your wireless card attached during startup.