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I have two Wifi adapters connected to my desktop: a PCI express TP-Link adapter, which is crap, and a USB Netgear adapter. I don't feel like manually taking out the PCI-E adapter, so how can I set the USB one as the default, and disable the internal one?

willem.hill
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You can use rfkill

First, do rfkill list This will show you the names of your interfaces. Then you can do rfkill block <adapterindex> and that interface will be blocked. You can unblock again with rfkill unblock <adapterindex>

For example, my rfkill list gives: my-lat wilhelm # rfkill list

0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
    Soft blocked: no
    Hard blocked: no

So I could run rfkill block 0 or rfkill block 1

You can add these commands to /etc/rc.local so they will be run on every boot.

For more information see man rfkill

Wilhelm Erasmus
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