Re: Can't change "Power Management" using NM

[Felipe Lema <felipe lema gmail com>]

I am using ath9k. I haven't found any documentation on module
parameters for loading, so any suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks for clearing this up

On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:26 -0300, Felipe Lema wrote:
>> Hi, everybody
>>
>> Using opensuse 12.2, I can't get my laptop to boot to xfce desktop
>> with Power Management off on device wlan0 (wireless).
>
> This is typically an driver bug and should probably be fixed there.
> What wifi hardware do you have?
>
> For the time being though, you could set power management independently
> of NetworkManager via rc.local or something like that.
>
> 802.11 PM should ususally be invisible to the user because the computer
> should be automatically adjusting it as necessary to provide the best
> power control and performance.  That's where we want to be.
>
> Dan
>
>> # /usr/sbin/iwconfig | grep -i "power man"
>> lo no wireless extensions.
>>
>> eth0 no wireless extensions.
>>
>> Power Management:off
>>
>>
>> However, I *can* change power management using iwconfig (grep'ing
>> afterwards confirms that I disabled power management).
>>
>>
>> # iwconfig wlan0 power off ; echo "return code: $?"
>> return code: 0
>>
>>
>> I've tried changing WIRELESS_POWER to 'none' and 'no' in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 but I've had no luck with it
>>
>> What can/should I do?
>>
>> Thanks
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