Disable Hardware in Ubuntu

[octopus41092]

Ok, so here's the situation. I'm on a laptop and the built in wireless is really bad. So, because of that I installed a Wireless Card in the PC Card slot. However, now it switches between both of them and so sometimes the connection is weak and sometimes it'll be strong.

So, right now I need a way to disable one of them. Does anyone know of how to do this in Linux Ubuntu 8.1?

 

[Horsepower]

disable the wireless in the bios (or turn it off)

 

[Atheus]

Use ifconfig to check what interface it is then ifdown that interface. Put it in the startup scripts.

 

[octopus41092]

Originally posted by: Atheus
Use ifconfig to check what interface it is then ifdown that interface. Put it in the startup scripts.

So I've figured out that it's eth1 and I use "sudo ifdown eth1" and I get "ifdown: interface eth1 not configured" and I don't think it's working. Does this have something to do with having to add it to the startup scripts?

If it is... I don't know how to add this to the startup scripts. Could someone give me instructions on how to do this or to get this working?