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Bug 341796 - be able to control power management for wifi
be able to control power management for wifi
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: gnome-power-manager
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.14.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
GNOME Power Manager Maintainer(s)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-15 04:29 UTC by Tom Wolfe
Modified: 2006-10-10 20:01 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Tom Wolfe 2006-05-15 04:29:58 UTC 
Some people have wireless cards that support power management (I have an intel
which uses the open ipw2100 module) all I have to do is a quick:
iwconfig eth1 power on
and all the sudden I get another 10-15 mins of battery life.
it would be great if there were possibly a little checkbox in the preferences to
turn power management on/off for a wireless card.  Or would this be something
the NetworkManager applet would handle?  keep up the great work.
Comment 1 Richard Hughes 2006-05-15 10:06:07 UTC 
Yes, agreed -- this is something that needs to be done. We discussed adding runtime management to all sorts of devices in HAL, and that needs to be done before we can add to either g-p-m or n-m, obviously.
Comment 2 Richard Hughes 2006-10-10 20:01:17 UTC 
Thinking about this more, we should probably add functionality to NetworkManager. One thing that might belong to g-p-m is setting the powerusage on the wifi card, but that's blue sky at the moment.
Can you please open a new bug against NetworkManager.

Thanks.