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Title: Manual Cf Card Enable/disable?
Post by: denny_kf on April 16, 2006, 10:09:25 am
I'd like to keep my bluetooth CF card inserted in the CF slot, but only provide power and enable it when I want to use it (for dial up). I mean, I don't want to waste my battery power when not used.
I tried to use cardctl to make the card down, but it will be up automatically when resume from suspend.
Title: Manual Cf Card Enable/disable?
Post by: ozuzo on April 16, 2006, 10:21:31 am
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I'd like to keep my bluetooth CF card inserted in the CF slot, but only provide power and enable it when I want to use it (for dial up). I mean, I don't want to waste my battery power when not used.

From what I've read on other forums, power usage of bluetooth is rather low, so I keep my one always on. Also on my phone (SE) I get maybe a day less on a week with a full charge...


Herman
Title: Manual Cf Card Enable/disable?
Post by: apink on April 16, 2006, 12:01:40 pm
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I'd like to keep my bluetooth CF card inserted in the CF slot, but only provide power and enable it when I want to use it (for dial up). I mean, I don't want to waste my battery power when not used.

From what I've read on other forums, power usage of bluetooth is rather low, so I keep my one always on. Also on my phone (SE) I get maybe a day less on a week with a full charge...


Herman
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Wifi is not as stingy.  I find myself taking my card out to save battery life.  It would be nice to have a way to keep the card inactive upon resume.  Any takers?
Title: Manual Cf Card Enable/disable?
Post by: desertrat on April 16, 2006, 01:45:00 pm
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Wifi is not as stingy.  I find myself taking my card out to save battery life.  It would be nice to have a way to keep the card inactive upon resume.  Any takers?
Card behaviour is controlled by /etc/apm/scripts.d/cardctl, mine looks like so:

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resume() {
  cardctl insert 0 2>/dev/null

  return 0
}
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.Just comment out or remove the "cardctl insert ..." line.

-- cheers
Title: Manual Cf Card Enable/disable?
Post by: webslngr on April 16, 2006, 02:05:39 pm
I'm sure you've looked at the help for cardctl but,

try:
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cardctl insert to start the card and
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cardctl eject to stop it
Title: Manual Cf Card Enable/disable?
Post by: denny_kf on April 16, 2006, 09:29:35 pm
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Wifi is not as stingy.  I find myself taking my card out to save battery life.  It would be nice to have a way to keep the card inactive upon resume.  Any takers?
Card behaviour is controlled by /etc/apm/scripts.d/cardctl, mine looks like so:

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resume() {
 Â cardctl insert 0 2>/dev/null

 Â return 0
}
.
.
.Just comment out or remove the "cardctl insert ..." line.

-- cheers
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No use.
I comment out the line, and the card is still up when resumed.