Re: [Madwifi-users] Madwifi power consumption

[Matt F. <mat...@cl...>]

Quoting Greg Chesson (ma...@at...):
> When you "ifdown ath0" the interface, the driver shuts off power.
> You might still see an LED, but no worries.
> I can't swear that the current sourceforge driver is correct in all=20
> respects,
> but some effort went in to checking that.
>=20
> In addition there are various low-power partially-awake modes
> where the hw mostly goes to sleep but wakes up to grab beacons
> and check for pending data.  This power-saving mode has not been
> implemented yet in the driver.
>=20

I've put this in the FAQ as entries 4.9 and 4.10.

Cheers,

Matt

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