>>>> > But at the end of the day, if you want to save power, you'll want to >>>> > turn off the wifi chipset when the user isn't going to use it. >> >> Well, not necessarily. With my hardware, turning off background scanning >> seems enough to save power.
Translating myself: when using ifdown, I do not even need to turn off the wifi chipset to save power. ifdown is enough to save power, since it does no background scan. > Right click the NM applet, uncheck "Enable wireless". When you want to > connect to something again check it again. Isn't that good enough for > you? Like probably every user I did this in the first place. The background scan power problem it caused is precisely what led me to this thread. _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
