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

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 22:11 -0300, Felipe Lema wrote:
> I am using ath9k. I haven't found any documentation on module
> parameters for loading, so any suggestions are appreciated.

iw dev wlan0 set power_save [on|off]

as long as you have 'iw' of course, which is essentially the replacement
for iwconfig.

Dan

> 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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> >