NAME

       rfkill - tool for enabling and disabling wireless devices

SYNOPSIS

       rfkill [options] command

OPTIONS

       --version
              Show the version of rfkill.

COMMANDS

       help   Show rfkill's built-in help text.

       event  Listen for rfkill events and display them on stdout.

       list [type]
              List  the  current  state of all available rfkill-using devices, or just all of the
              given type.

       block index|type
              Disable the device corresponding to the given index.  type is one of "all", "wifi",
              "wlan", "bluetooth", "uwb", "ultrawideband", "wimax", "wwan", "gps", "fm" or "nfc".

       unblock index|type
              Enable  the device corresponding to the given index. If the device is hard-blocked,
              e.g. via a hardware switch, it will remain  unavailable  though  it  is  now  soft-
              unblocked.

AUTHORS

       rfkill  was  originally  written  by  Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> and Marcel
       Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>.

       This manual page was written by Darren Salt <linux@youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk>,  for  the
       Debian project (and may be used by others).

                                          July 10, 2009                                 RFKILL(8)