Re: power management

["Derek Cramer" <cramerd gmail com>]

On 29/03/07, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj umdnj edu> wrote:
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> dragoran wrote:
> > yelo_3 wrote:
> >> I know there is a command "iwconfig eth1 power on" which enables power management. I don't know exactly what it does but if it exists I'm sure it does something!
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> > this is something that should be done in gnome-power-manager but not in
> > nm....
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> I'm not sure I'd agree with that. I'm sure it makes more sense, but at
> the same time, this is not the way virutally all other implementations
> handle it. Typically in the Windows drivers, this shows up under the
> wireless networking settings, and as well in WLAssistant or whatever
> that was called.

I would imagine it would be best implemented in NM due to its
proximity to the wireless drivers and exposed/configurable via dbus so
that the likes of gnome-power-manager could enable/disable it.

Regards,
Derek.