I tried using boot.local to run the command (following several
recommendations on forums). Has (also?) worked out fine.

Will try your way also. Thanks

On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Dan Williams <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 <[email protected]> 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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> > >
>
>
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