Disable Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth

#1

What is the proposed way to disable Wi-Fi and/or Bluetooth on Rock Pi 4 with Debian/Ubuntu?

What I found is:

systemctl disable wpa_supplicant
systemctl disable bluetooth
systemctl disable hciuart

for both.

Is there a better way?

#2

I would try blacklisting the kernel module that’s loaded for the Wi-Fi although I don’t know the name of the module you might have to research that

#3

Depending on what you need it could be
ifconfig wlan0 down
Or, if you need something lower level, most commands fron there

#4

Thanks!

nmcli radio wifi off was the thing I was looking for.

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#5

What if I want to disable bluetooth ONLY?

#6

Some people wanna activate it first…