Re: PCMCIA Power management

From: Will Stephenson <william.stephenson_at_ncl.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 16:26:49 +0100

On Thursday 19 July 2001 2:48 pm, James ''Wez'' Weatherall wrote:
> Does anyone know how difficult it is to put a WaveLAN card into sleep mode
> from user space?
>
> Obviously, I could just use "cardctl eject" to do it, but that's rather
> heavyweight when all I really want to do is switch the card off for a short
> period to save power, without tearing down DHCP and so on.

I'm experimenting myself, but do you think the various 'iwconfig eth0
power....' options might be useful here?

Will

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