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Fast way to turn off Bluetooth in HP Pavilion dm1 notebooks equiped with Broadcom wireless cards. These cards have a bug that deactivates WiFi when the user turns off Bluetooth. The only way to turn off Bluetooth without turning off WiFi is using rfkill. This script does all the stuff automatically. Install: just copy this file to /usr/local/bin…
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btoff.sh
#!/bin/sh
HCI_ID=$(rfkill list | grep hci0 | cut -f1 -d':')
if [ $HCI_ID -ge 0 ]; then
rfkill block $HCI_ID
fi
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