My mother has Mint 13 on her Toshiba laptop. Her laptop has a consistent problem with the built-in wifi network controller (apparently a known issue, judging from various blogs). I bought a USB wifi adapter for about $10, and it works great. Unfortunately, the built-in wifi occasionally comes to life at seemingly random moments.
I thought I could just put in a startup script like this:
I threw it in a shell script and plopped it in the ~/.kde/Autostart directory, and it ran and shut down the controller. Unfortunately, it also shut down the other controller (wlan1).
So my assumption is that I am doing something wrong (usually a safe assumption). Can someone suggest the proper way to do this? Unfortunately, the built-in controller is not on a separate board, so there's no way to unplug it. If this doesn't work, we may just have to buy another machine, but I'd rather fix this, even if it's a kludgy fix. Thanks!