How to disable the wifi on boot? I'm using network-manager to manage the wifi connection and when I disable this, setting is temporary to the current session.
Exists therefore a method to make persistent settings for network-manager? thanks
Ubuntu – How to disable the WiFi using network-manager permanently
bootnetwork-managersettingswireless
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Hm... not sure why NeworkManager behave this way. This should only happen if you have already added the wireless network in the list and Connect automatically is checked.... maybe is from a connection configured by another users and made available to all users.
You can try to manually add the wireless network and the uncheck Connect automatically.
You can look at System --> Administrator --> Log File Viewer, Under "dmseg" file to see if something with the authentication process is wrong
Some more experienced people will suggest to harvest the power of terminal by doing something like :
cat /var/log/* | grep network-manager > network-manager-output.txt
I hope you can find a solution to your problem
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It sounds like you want to right click on the network manager applet and select
disable wireless, if this isn't being saved over your session then please report it as a bug:https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs
If on the other hand you want to prevent your computer from automatically joining networks, then you must go into the network editing and either remove and uncheck the use automatically option for each network.
If you want to save power, then please use the advice in the guide mentioned by Mussnoon above, shutting off with rfkill will be most effective:
How can I keep a wireless card's radio powered off by default?
By running
sudo nano /etc/rc.localadd this:before the line
exit 0