On 2018/06/19 18:09, Ken M wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 04:53:21PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > 
> > hostname.if(5) has this:
> > 
> > "Any lines not matching these packed formats are passed directly to
> > ifconfig(8)."
> > 
> 
> After reading the manpage again for hostname.if last night I spotted the way 
> it
> suggests to put uptions at the end of the inet line, or the dhcp line. So I 
> made
> my last line this:
> 
> dhcp -powersave

You can do that, or you can put options on a line by themselves and
they're passed directly to ifconfig.

> That seems to have solved my intermitten network issues that I was guessing 
> were
> caused by the wireless powersave. To ask a side question I am not noticing a 
> way
> to confirm powersave is disabled from the ifconfig command.

If powersave is enabled, you'll see "powersave on (XXms sleep)" on the
ieee80211: [...] line.

If powersave is disabled (which is the default), nothing special is printed.

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