Author Topic: Enabling Wireless Card Power Managment (Read 2301 times)

dvdrw · « **on:** February 03, 2005, 01:53:08 pm »

laze, have you thought about providing an option (or enabling by default) power management for the wireless card in the lan/network panel (wireless tab)? I've played around with this, and it seems to help battery life noticeably with my DLink/SanDisk CF 802 cards (both are Prism-based cards.) I am not sure about compatiblity with other cards though.

you can enable powersave mode at the command line by entering:

iwconfig eth0 power on

to make powersave mode always enabled, I modified "/usr/bin/network.py", and searched for 'case "$ADDRESS" in' (should be around line 68), and inserted this string before the case statement:

IWCONFIG="power on"

seems to work great, and it does seem to help improve battery life with the wireless card.

just a thought...!

conundrum · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2005, 03:14:47 pm »

I already use the LP Socket Card, so maybe this will help even more.

Thanks for the tip.

Laze · « **Reply #2 on:** February 04, 2005, 03:12:11 am »

Ooopss will add it right away.. Next IPK feed update will included this.

scoutme · « **Reply #3 on:** February 06, 2005, 05:32:20 am »

I found that string two times in the pythin script. I put the power stuff right before each of the two repetition. Right?

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Author Topic: Enabling Wireless Card Power Managment (Read 2301 times)