My laptop has a manual networking hardware switch on it. It hasn't caused me many issues until I switched to Ubuntu. Now, it randomly shuts itself off, requiring me to turn the networking switch off and on to fix it. How would I manually disable it so it does nothing?
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You can't disable a hardware switch using your operating system.
A hardware switch physically disables and enables whatever component the switch is designed to control.
You cannot use software to enable a component that has been disabled by a hardware switch.
If you want to use software to enable and disable this hardware you will need to always keep the hardware switch on the "On" position.
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That sucks. Oh well. – Eris Starmaster Apr 18 '22 at 19:24