Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-17 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Sunday, November 16, 2008 a las 01:49:57AM +0100, Minh Ha Duong escribió: Le samedi 15 novembre 2008, Matthias Apitz a écrit : I don't know if it reduces the drawing of power (btw: what is the easiest method to measure it? pulling out the battery and measure the power consumption via

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-17 Thread Carl Lobo
I guess that's right. I have similar readings myself. On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:57 PM, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Sunday, November 16, 2008 a las 01:49:57AM +0100, Minh Ha Duong escribió: Le samedi 15 novembre 2008, Matthias Apitz a écrit : I don't know if it reduces the

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-17 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Matthias Apitz wrote: for now I've tested it with your battery.py, here are the numbers: 181 mA -- nearly empty FR (only battery.py and Terminal running) 231 mA -- after launch of GPSD 183 mA -- after stop of GPSD 189-232 mA -- after Wifi-up with, running 'ping' through eth0

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-17 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Monday, November 17, 2008 a las 03:19:32PM +0100, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) escribió: Matthias Apitz wrote: for now I've tested it with your battery.py, here are the numbers: 181 mA -- nearly empty FR (only battery.py and Terminal running) 231 mA -- after launch of GPSD

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-16 Thread Yorick Moko
http://tehinterweb.com/freerunner/batmon/batmon.py is also nice On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 1:49 AM, Minh Ha Duong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Le samedi 15 novembre 2008, Matthias Apitz a écrit : I don't know if it reduces the drawing of power (btw: what is the easiest method to measure it? pulling out

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-16 Thread jidanni
When I visited the Taipei office in to buy my GTA02 in 9/2008, I spent the entire day with the engineers adjusting this and that. I asked them about disabling the four antennas in the GTA02. They said for the other three powering down via software commands was enough. But for the WIFI antenna, one

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-15 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Saturday, November 15, 2008 a las 04:13:40AM +0100, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) escribió: FilipBE wrote: I was able to disable/re-enable wifi with following lines, I did however not have the time to check the impact on battery life # using Atheros wmiconfig command to disable

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-15 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Le samedi 15 novembre 2008, Matthias Apitz a écrit : I don't know if it reduces the drawing of power (btw: what is the easiest method to measure it? pulling out the battery and measure the power consumption via the cable?); I would use something like the attached battery.py script to measure

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-14 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
FilipBE wrote: I was able to disable/re-enable wifi with following lines, I did however not have the time to check the impact on battery life # using Atheros wmiconfig command to disable wlan ./wmiconfig -i eth0 --wlan disable # To re-enable wlan: ./wmiconfig -i eth0 --wlan enable

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-13 Thread FilipBE
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Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-12 Thread Margo Koppelmann
I have the same question: how do i turn off wifi? I'm using FDOM and after using wifi I do ifdown eth0 and then turn wifi off in Config - Settings and then I turn it off in Config - Services, but the little wifi icon in the top panel still remains and the battery empties about 3 times faster than

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-12 Thread Alex Oberhauser
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:24:24AM +0200, Margo Koppelmann wrote: I have the same question: how do i turn off wifi? I'm using FDOM and after using wifi I do ifdown eth0 and then turn wifi off in Config - Settings and then I turn it off in Config - Services, but the little wifi icon in the top

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-12 Thread W.Kenworthy
try `iwconfig eth0 power on txpower off` to minimise power consumption, and the inverse `iwconfig eth0 power off txpower auto` to turn it back on. While not removing power, it certainly reduces consumption. Also, while using wireless with power saving on sounds good when running on battery,

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-11 Thread Christ van Willegen
Hi, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While thinking in power savings: is there a way to turn completely off the power of the Wifi chip, like we do it with the GPS: # echo 0 /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0/0-0073/neo1973-pm-gps.0/pwron or with the GSM

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-11 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Tuesday, November 11, 2008 a las 09:47:24AM +0100, Christ van Willegen escribió: Hi, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Matthias Apitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While thinking in power savings: is there a way to turn completely off the power of the Wifi chip, like we do it with the

Re: [Om2008.9] How to power off Wifi?

2008-11-11 Thread Marco Trevisan (Treviño)
Matthias Apitz wrote: While thinking in power savings: is there a way to turn completely off the power of the Wifi chip ifconfig eth0 down should do it, but in my experience it continues to draw the battery :|. I guess we should wait the stable-tracking module implementation. -- Treviño's