On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:55:45AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Yesterday I did some tests with my eeePC 900 to see how long it would > work with the 4400 mAh battery ... it seems that turning of the wireless > card (ath0), which can be turned of from the BIOS, has big effect and > let work the eeePC for more then 2hours 15minutes; > > in the Xandros Linux you can turn off the NIC as well with Fn+F2 which > in FreeBSD does not work at boot stage, i.e. when you may defer the > booting in the boot loader countdown;
Yes, this only works after booting. At least on the 701. > is there any way to switch this off without going into the BIOS? After booting you can unload ath module and press Fn+F2. It should turn off wireless. The problem is that you can't turn it back on. For that, we need PCIe hotplug support. (That's what Fn+F2 does, it ejects the wireless card). Regards, -- Rui Paulo _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
