Disable onboard WiFi and Bluetooth on Raspberry Pi 4 device.
List Bluetooth devices.
$ hcitool dev
Devices: hci0 E4:5F:01:42:3A:4B
List wireless devices
$ iw dev
phy#0 Unnamed/non-netdev interface wdev 0x2 addr e6:5f:01:42:3a:4a type P2P-device Interface wlan0 ifindex 3 wdev 0x1 addr e4:5f:01:42:3a:4a type managed channel 34 (5170 MHz), width: 20 MHz, center1: 5170 MHz
Inspect available options.
$ less /boot/overlays/README
[...] Name: disable-bt Info: Disable onboard Bluetooth on Pi 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B and Zero W, restoring UART0/ttyAMA0 over GPIOs 14 & 15. N.B. To disable the systemd service that initialises the modem so it doesn't use the UART, use 'sudo systemctl disable hciuart'. Load: dtoverlay=disable-bt Params: <None> [...] Name: disable-wifi Info: Disable onboard WLAN on Pi 3B, 3B+, 3A+, 4B and Zero W. Load: dtoverlay=disable-wifi Params: <None> [...]
Disable onboard Bluetooth devices.
$ echo "dtoverlay=disable-bt" | sudo tee -a /boot/config.txt
Disable onboard WLAN devices.
$ echo "dtoverlay=disable-wifi" | sudo tee -a /boot/config.txt
Disable systemd service that initializes Bluetooth Modems connected by UART.
$ sudo systemctl disable hciuart
Reboot Raspberry Pi device.
$ sudo reboot
Ensure that Bluetooth devices are not available.
$ hcitool dev
Devices:
Ensure that wireless devices are not available.
$ iw dev
Inspect network devices.
$ ip -br a
lo UNKNOWN 127.0.0.1/8 ::1/128 eth0 UP 172.16.1.101/16 fe80::12b8:2400:4357:ec24/64
That is all.