hi,
using
/interface wireless disable wlan#
one can disable the interface, but the signal is still active.
Is it possible to power off the wireless hardware?
Are you sure that disabled interface transmitted? It does not correspond to my experience…
hi jarda,
it’s probably a semantics question 
. You are right that a disabled interface does not transmit (in the meaning, you cannot login or use the network), but it’s still visible so people get confused.
So, is it possible to turn off the wireless hardware?
How it is visible in your case when it doesn’t transmit? I cannot understand this.
hi jarda,
sorry for the late reply, real life happened.
let’s see:
[admin@MikroTik] > interface wireless print
Flags: X - disabled, R - running
0 R name=“wlan1” mtu=1500 l2mtu=1600 mac-address=6C:3B:6B:1D:2C:57 arp=enabled interface-type=Atheros AR9300 mode=ap-bridge ssid=“dd-wrt-2g”
So I have a wlan interface wit a ssid dd-wrt-2g
This is visible (see screenshot)
When I turn it off:
[admin@MikroTik] > interface wireless disable wlan1
[admin@MikroTik] > interface wireless print Flags: X - disabled, R - running
0 X name=“wlan1” mtu=1500 l2mtu=1600 mac-address=6C:3B:6B:1D:2C:57 arp=enabled interface-type=Atheros AR9300 mode=ap-bridge ssid=“dd-wrt-2g”
so it’s disabled, but I can still see it on the network center of windows or a moder linux distribution.
Thats pretty much impossible. Can you run some WiFi scanner just to get BSSID and AP MAC so you can be sure its your device? I’m saying this because i use similar script @home and when it turns WiFi off it really goes off. InSSIDer ( windows) or WiFite on linux.
hi,
yesterday I took a look using an android tablet and an iphone and the signals are indeed not available.
So this looks like I was looking at old information in the network managers of windows and linux.
Exactly.