RFKILL

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rfkill - tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

rfkill [options] command

help: Show rfkill's built-in help text.
event: Listen for rfkill events and display them on stdout.
list [type]: List the current state of all available rfkill-using devices, or just all of the given type.
block index|type: Disable the device corresponding to the given index. type is one of "all", "wifi", "wlan", "bluetooth", "uwb", "ultrawideband", "wimax", "wwan", "gps" or "fm".
unblock index|type: Enable the device corresponding to the given index. If the device is hard-blocked, e.g. via a hardware switch, it will remain unavailable though it is now soft-unblocked.

rfkill was originally written by Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> and Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>.

This manual page was written by Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 22:02:15 GMT, April 16, 2011