S905/MXQ Pro - disable internal wifi

  • Hi,

    I found internal wifi to be unstable and low transfers. I use usb wifi dongle instead and it works without any problems. However, now I 'm getting 2 interfaces: wlan0 and wlan1 and I'm always confused which one is internal wifi (they even keep swapping sometimes).

    Any way to completly disable/blacklist internal wifi kernel module?

  • I want completly disable internal wifi. As it's linux, this could be done eaisly by blacklisting kernel module, but I'm not sure how to indetify which module is it and how to blacklist, because corresponding configuration should be in /etc/modprobe.d.

  • Well.. even if you don't know what's there, the module list would mean something to other people.

    Ethtool is there. For built in wifi card:

    So, to disable:

    Code
    rmmod ssv6051

    I guess there is blacklist in /storage/config

  • Code
    echo "blacklist ssv6051" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
    reboot

    ^ should do it - and that driver is a complete POS, it should be removed (and it will be in the mainline kernel switch).

    Afaik internal wifi is the same unstable on original Android firmware on this box. So I am not suspected. From other side, better than nothing.