[CentOS] Turning off wifi in CentOS 7

[Chuck Campbell]

On 5/19/2015 12:54 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Excerpt I *still* see absolutely no use in an enterprise environment, where
> we're *all* wired, even the laptops when folks bring them in. This improves
> throughput and security, of course.
>> Great post. I am just in the process of building my first CentOS 7 host
>> and was wondering whether to use NetworkManager. You've swayed me. I've
>> always disabled it on CentOS 6. Your point about these new funky device
>> names is really good. I will miss my simple eth0 and eth1 but tech moves
>> on.
> And that one drives me nuts. It breaks PXE boot kickstart builds. Maybe
> *you* have all same model systems from the same manufacturer; we've got
> boxen from...<thinking> at least five or six manufacturers, of varying
> ages, from the 10+ yr old Altix 3000 from SGI, to the current one from
> SGI, to my 5 yr old Dell workstation, to some old Penguins and several
> Suns (soon to set, the sooner the better...). How do you deal with
> everything from em1 to ens3f0, which comes up *only* after you start to
> install.... In what conceivable way is this better than having your
> scripts know that eth0 (or even em1) is always going to be how to talk to
> the world?
> <snip>
>
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We have licensed software, using flexlm, whifh chokes and pukes, unless it is
able to communicate on eth0, so I have to jump through hoops to ensure the
correct interface IS eth0.

Until they fix this issue, I have no choice.

-chuck

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