Hi maemo-developers, Is it possible on the N800 to programatically shut down the wifi interface and bring it back up?
I have an application that very occasionally needs network connectivity. If I leave my device connected to wifi, the battery dies too quickly. I would like to have the software turn on the wifi interface, do its thing, and then turn the interface off to conserve energy. I've considered other solutions, but I think this is the simplest answer. I thought at first that libconic could do this, but it appears not (at least not in Python: see the comment here: https://garage.maemo.org/svn/pymaemo/packages/python-conic/branches/chinook/tests/test_disconnect.py). Is it possible? I saw a veiled reference to sending d-bus messages (http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-developers/2007-April/009462.html), but it wasn't specific enough to turn into code. I tried running /etc/init.d/wlancond stop, but that doesn't seem to decrease power consumption. Is there a magical dbus message I can send? If I could trick it into entering/exiting flight mode, that would work too. I've been experimenting for hours with no luck. Thanks for your help, George _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
