Armijn Hemel wrote: > On Tue, 2009-08-11 at 09:12 -0700, Kok, Auke wrote: >>>> notice the wireless device is running and _on_ >>>> >>>> not sure why you're unable to write to power_level. Can you try >> using >>>> iwpriv to >>>> set the power level and see if that works? >>> Odd. >>> >>> # iwpriv wlan1 get_power >>> wlan1 no private ioctls. >> what does iwconfig say? > > After turning on the little hardware switch to enable wireless it does > work (duh). But still I'm wondering why it doesn't work if the HW RF > killswitch is on and if it actually has any effect on battery life.
Actually, I wish I could answer that, but only the person who wrote your BIOS can probably reasonably well give you an explanation of what it does. It might even just only disconnect/unpower your antenna (who knows what they've done...) Auke _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
