Disabling the onboard RPi3 wifi? (Solved)

**nickrob84** · July 1, 2016 at 11:28 PM

Possible to do it? Sometimes I find it overrides my dongle even though I have deleted all connections from it! Bizarre.

**chewitt** · July 2, 2016 at 7:46 AM Official Post

Code

echo "blacklist brcmfmac" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
echo "blacklist brcmutil" >> /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
reboot

does that work?

**nickrob84** · July 2, 2016 at 8:15 AM

Quote from chewitt

Code

echo "blacklist brcmfmac" > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
echo "blacklist brcmutil" >> /storage/.config/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
reboot

does that work?

At work at the moment so will tell you this evening but if it does you have solved me a massive headache, so hopefully thanks in advance. Is that to be input via SSH all at once?

**nickrob84** · July 2, 2016 at 8:21 PM

Quote from nickrob84

At work at the moment so will tell you this evening but if it does you have solved me a massive headache, so hopefully thanks in advance. Is that to be input via SSH all at once?

No luck I'm afraid, copied and pasted into ssh, no error messages but didn't reboot and then proceeded to send the wifi crazy resulting in a restore. Should I run each command separately?

**nickr** · July 2, 2016 at 10:01 PM Official Post

Yes there are three lines there. The first two lines start with 'echo'. The last line is 'reboot' .

**nickrob84** · July 2, 2016 at 10:09 PM

Quote from nickr

Yes there are three lines there. The first two lines start with 'echo'. The last line is 'reboot' .

Thanks, will have another go in a bit.
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Nope, not working I'm afraid. Thanks for your help though.

**nickr** · July 2, 2016 at 11:33 PM Official Post

What does blacklist.conf now say?

**nickrob84** · July 3, 2016 at 12:07 AM

Repeated the process and it seems to have worked, should my dongle be showing as wlan0 now isntead of wlan1?

**nickrob84** · July 3, 2016 at 2:25 PM

Think I found an easier way just for future reference:

Disabling onboard RPi3 wifi running LibreELEC

**chewitt** · July 3, 2016 at 3:17 PM Official Post

Nope. That's *exactly* the same as what I gave you, only the extra two lines Milhouse documented also disable Bluetooth.

**nickrob84** · July 3, 2016 at 11:05 PM

Im an idiot I know

**nickrob84** · July 5, 2016 at 12:37 AM

Working a dream now, temperatures of lowered around 5c as well.

jortorri · January 3, 2017 at 12:54 AM

Quote from chewitt

Nope. That's *exactly* the same as what I gave you, only the extra two lines Milhouse documented also disable Bluetooth.

Hi.
I tried this way to disable the onboard wifi but it doens't work for me. I've put the file with this content:

#wifi
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmutil

I've tried with several names: "raspi3-blacklist.conf" and "blacklist.conf", both on config/.modprobe.d/.

Then I reboot but the wifi interface that is online by default is always wlan0, and wlan1 is idle.

Any idea? What I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advanced!

**lrusak** · January 3, 2017 at 4:26 AM Official Post

Use

/storage/.config/modprobe.d/