Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 11:54:55 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: power off ath0: <Atheros AR946x/AR948x> Message-ID: <54B3FC5F.3070306@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20150111080530.GA2035@c720-r276659> References: <20150111080530.GA2035@c720-r276659>
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On 1/11/15 3:05 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Is there a way to completely power-off the Wifi chip in my Acer C720? > I tried 'ifconfig ath0 down' which saves around 20 mA. But the LED stays > on, which let me think it is still someow on-air. Not yet. You could try setting the tunable to disable power for PCI devices without a driver and not include 'ath' in your kernel config. I will (soon) commit a new 'devctl' tool to HEAD that would let you do 'devctl suspend ath0' to do this. -- John Baldwin
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