Disable Bluetooth device on Ubuntu I run Kubuntu Quantal on a Macbook 8-2 and want to disable the Bluetooth device. Yeah, disable, not just hide or stop a deamon, but shut off the damn hardware. I know it can be done on Lenovos using `echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/bluetooth_enable` but for Macbooks? Someone briefly told me about `-bt 0` but couldn't really remember ... and that string is certainly hard to google.

You can blacklist the bluetooth kernel module:


echo bluetooth >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf


This should disable the device from being initialized.

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As far as `-bt 0`. I was able to google it with _disable bluetooth "bt 0"_. The first result suggests it was a flag passed to `hal` to disable bluetooth. Unfortunately `hal` is depreciated so this method will no longer work.