Disabling wireless on boot

[sir_saucealot]

Hi,

Got a bit of a weird problem. I've got a brand new Dell 600m notebook dual-booting Debian and Windows, and whenever I leave work and try to boot into Debian, it hangs when trying to bring up wlan0:

ndiswrapper: using irq 11

And that's as far as she gets. I have ALSO noted that the same thing happens at work if I am running off batteries. Like I said, weird.

What's the best way of stopping wlan0 attempting to ifup on boot?

All your help is greatly appreciated.

Sauce

[sir_saucealot]

I've found the problem - my kernel config doesn't currently support Advanced Power Mangement. Oh well, another recompile will be good.........

[sir_saucealot]

By the way, if you do want to disable wireless (or eth0) on boot, just comment out the 'auto' command in /etc/network/interfaces for the required interface:

For example,

#auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address xx.xx.xx.xx
netmask xx.xx.xx.xx
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx
network xx.xx.xx.0
broadcast xx.xx.xx.255
nameservers="xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx.xx"

[sir_saucealot]

By the way, if you do want to disable wireless (or eth0) on boot, just comment out the 'auto' command in /etc/network/interfaces for the required interface:

For example,

#auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address xx.xx.xx.xx
netmask xx.xx.xx.xx
gateway xx.xx.xx.xx
network xx.xx.xx.0
broadcast xx.xx.xx.255
nameservers="xx.xx.xx.xx xx.xx.xx.xx"