Am Freitag, dem 27.02.2026 um 13:45 +0000 schrieb Henti Smith: > Good day all. > > I'm running Robots on Ubuntu 24.04 that are configured with netplan > and Network Manager. > As part of this we disable power saving on WiFi cards by adding > [connection] > wifi.powersave = 2 > to /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/default-wifi-powersave-on.conf > > We have started testing switching to networkd and I cannot find a > similar mechanism. > > I can create a unit that will run > iw dev wlp9s0f0 set power_save off > as a service to get around this. > > Is there a way that does not require an extra unit? a global > configuration option ? > > Kind regards > Henti
Hi Henti, which tooling do you use for establishing the link itself? iwd or wpa_supplicant? Those are responsible to set some hardware features. Because sd-networkd operates on a higher level, where NetworkManager configures the whole stack – with the help of iwd/wpa_supplicant. Regards Silvio
