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#1 2008-12-22 22:17:16

nTia89
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From: varese, italy
Registered: 2008-12-22
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power off the wireless card

hi to everyone

i have a question

i have a macbook and with mac os x i can power off the wireless card  (an atheros.....)

now i have installed the latest arch so i have a dual boot                  (ps for the guide in /wiki/)

so my question is:

                              we can power off wireless card from arch so we can save battery ????
                              other to wireless card in mac os x we can power off bluetooth too .....in arch ???

thks


+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome

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#2 2008-12-23 19:51:23

nTia89
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Re: power off the wireless card

nobody have any idea ?!?!?


+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome

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#3 2008-12-24 03:33:03

iphitus
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From: Melbourne, Australia
Registered: 2004-10-09
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Re: power off the wireless card

It depends on the hardware...

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 power ??? (have a look in the man page)

For most, simply rmmod'ing the driver should work.

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#4 2008-12-29 10:28:05

nTia89
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From: varese, italy
Registered: 2008-12-22
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Re: power off the wireless card

iphitus wrote:

It depends on the hardware...

ifconfig wlan0 down
iwconfig wlan0 power ??? (have a look in the man page)

For most, simply rmmod'ing the driver should work.

thks


+pc: custom | AMD Opteron 175 | nForce4 Ultra | 2GB ram DDR400 | nVidia 9800GT 1GB | ArchLinux x86_64 w/ openbox
+laptop: Apple | MacBook (2,1) | 2GB ram | Mac OS X 10.4 -> DIED
+ultrabook: Dell | XPS 13 (9343) | 8GB ram | 256GB ssd | FullHD display | Windows 8.1 64bit ArchLinux x86_64 w/ Gnome

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#5 2008-12-29 18:43:57

kludge
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Registered: 2008-08-03
Posts: 294

Re: power off the wireless card

nTia89:  if this worked for ya, please mark the thread [SOLVED].  thx!


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