> > I alway unload the modules of unused hardware in order to save battery
> > power. Is that really needed or can the driver itself do some savings
> > already?
>
> airport will powersave when rmmod'ed. sungem will powersave about 10
> second after the interface is brought down (ifconfig eth0 d
> I alway unload the modules of unused hardware in order to save battery
> power. Is that really needed or can the driver itself do some savings
> already?
airport will powersave when rmmod'ed. sungem will powersave about 10
second after the interface is brought down (ifconfig eth0 down)
Ben.
Hi,
as many of you know, I have got an iBook2 500 with WLAN. Both, WLAN and
LAN are built as modules (airport, orinoco, hermes; sungem). Usually I
only use WLAN for networking and the sungem module is not loaded at all.
Then the WLAN is eth0.
Therefore I wrote in /etc/network/interfaces:
# Wire
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