<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>> Now....how the friggin' hell do I switch of the WWAN......?<br><br></div> And to keep up with the "talking to myself theme"....there is a settin under the Network Manager that purports to control mobile broadband, but it doesn't seem to work (the device remains powered). The answer appears to be (for *buntu on a ThinkPad):<br>
sudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/wwan_enable'<br><br></div>Re-enable with:<br> sudo sh -c 'echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/wwan_enable'<br><br></div>It's a bit poor that you have to invoke the root account to do this. I recall a certain Mr. Torvalds had some things to say about needing admin rights to perform basic functions such as adding a printer.<br>
<br><div>Now to add that to some kind of start script and see if there is a way to remove the need for sudo. And stop spamming the list. :-)<br></div><div><br></div>J.<br></div>