So I'm trying to a very simple command (ifdown) to bring down my WiFi interface but the command cannot see it (see below)
When I ran the ifdown command, I copy/paste the interface name from the results of the iwconfig so it's very unlikely I made a typo. I've done this several times and I get the same results.
Any ideas what I could be doing wrong? Thanks
user@mydesktop:~/$ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:4915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4915 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:413384 (413.3 KB) TX bytes:413384 (413.3 KB)
wls1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 34:13:e8:63:3d:cd
inet addr:192.168.1.11 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::19a:7204:6f13:7593/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:62390 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:43986 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:79936235 (79.9 MB) TX bytes:5382829 (5.3 MB)
chiyo@mydesktop:~/$ iwconfig
wls1 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"XXXXX"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 80:EA:96:F2:4A:E2
Bit Rate=57.8 Mb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry short limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:on
Link Quality=37/70 Signal level=-73 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:2 Missed beacon:0
lo no wireless extensions.
user@mydesktop:~/$ sudo ifdown wls1
ifdown: interface wls1 not configured
nmcli
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