Best way to disable the WIFI via HW?

My understanding is the switches do something like a POST during initial bootup, and certain chips being missing or shorted, etc, could cause many errors.

Making this reply to say I found my resolution!

It took a while to get time to test, as other work had to come first, but Ball A10, WL_REG_ON being disconnected did, in fact, remove wifi without otherwise impacting the switch’s operations. It will attempt to scan networks, and just pop an error message saying it could not use wifi. I ended up doing so via scratching the trace as an easy, makeshift way on a board we had laying around, though I imagine reballing the chip and removing ball A10 would also suffice, though increase risk of other complications.

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