On Do, 18 Jun 2009, Bernd Eggink wrote: > iwconfig wlan0 power on I can confirm that turning power on on wlan0 does actually save a lot of energy, but ...
> With this setting and a running wlan I get lower power consumption than > with a powered down wlan. Without power management, consumption is 1 W > higher, and doesn't appear to depend much on the rfkill state. Hmm, here I do see a difference, I am not sure, hard to test. I left it running the same way for about 10min and then the usage was mor or less the same. BUt it is anyway good to know that turning power on amounts to more or less the same as turning the device completely off, at least for me. Thanks Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <prein...@debian.org> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RECULVER (n.) The sort of remark only ever made during Any Questions. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series Post to : sony-vaio-z-series@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~sony-vaio-z-series More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp