Any way to disable bluetooth on new MacBooks?

[zamoose]

Howdy all,
Corporate regulations require that we in our IT department disable bluetooth and wireless capabilities for any company-owned machines. I can disable the wifi cards in the new MBPs simply by removing them if necessary, although software solutions exist as well. There appears to be no similar option for bluetooth – you can remove it from the networking pref pane, but there appears to be no way (short of logging in to each account as admin and disabling it) to disable "discoverable" and file transfer modes on the MBPs.

The ability to do this is critical for adoption of the MBPs at our site. If anyone has any insights into how to accomplish this, please share ASAP!

Thanks.

[mhelman]

[QUOTE][u]Quote by: MacTroll[/u]

Pull the bluetooth kext.

IOBluetoothFamily.kext
IOBluetoothHIDDriver.kext

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Hi,
I tried this under 10.4.2 but after a reboot the system just recreated the files.
Is there something I missed?
Thanks,
Mark

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