Not from the user's perspective. She bought a wireless router presumably for wireless connectivity. Of course, this violates one of the primary user interface guidelines about the user always being in control, but in this case I think it's warranted. -- Michael Fraase mfraase at farces.com www.michaelfraase.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Jima [mailto:jima at beer.tclug.org] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:43 AM > To: Michael Fraase > Cc: 'Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List' > Subject: RE: [tcwug-list] Disable wireless on WRT54GC > > On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Michael Fraase wrote: > > Why would a vendor ship a wireless router with the wireless > disabled? > > Secured, yes. Disabled, no. > > > > Seems to me, admittedly a non-coder, a relatively trivial > task to make > > the device boot into a web screen that prompts the administrator to > > define a > > WPA/WPA2 key when it's first plugged in. Make it so it > won't run until > > this key is defined. > > Am I missing something glaringly obvious, or isn't that > technically disabling the wireless (and everything else)? > > Jima