From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 26 23:17:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61C211065681 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@gmail.com) Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF0028FC15 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpaulo@gmail.com) Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c30so89172ika.3 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:17:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:cc:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; bh=bUrLxb/CpS10fMjZHu9mQgysY2THKYrcLEUWVOt618U=; b=GgfqfEMPf+HR7AHvL3CiBXvAd3lzsYB+cNSs/DjJErk3JAWUspFfDoOgeqwQRpp6Ba mZDvuLNuOpLfngaXSsmqiVqGteCzDEpoR0/oK3wU7iCGpyf9n/Yp/hhCkm1H9vOjOiOW /P/NXIvhlVgQGv57tTVwAaQQ2nc4rXPPe4aB4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:sender; b=Z684+lr1WvugEKn4VhIB8gQybnJIKhAiGZmliUtSnWJEDvQTRo1TndPNGhnvOhtt3l V2NawrjxaR7J/0kK6VKeZRAjt96/ZHbZRRsg70WW46YBofY4CbtrEQWA/4wEfzmAnArh yNJQg8VaVt1HXakA+l3gOSBxXHzPBEtL3m7dw= Received: by 10.210.11.13 with SMTP id 13mr436842ebk.142.1214522272030; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:17:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phi.local ( [89.214.217.117]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j8sm858179gvb.1.2008.06.26.16.17.48 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:17:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:16:03 +0100 From: Rui Paulo To: Matthias Apitz Message-ID: <20080626231603.GC6875@phi.local> References: <20080626075545.GA2964@rebelion.Sisis.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080626075545.GA2964@rebelion.Sisis.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: Rui Paulo Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, james@nighthack.org Subject: Re: eeePC 900 && turning off wireless (ath0) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 23:17:53 -0000 On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:55:45AM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > Yesterday I did some tests with my eeePC 900 to see how long it would > work with the 4400 mAh battery ... it seems that turning of the wireless > card (ath0), which can be turned of from the BIOS, has big effect and > let work the eeePC for more then 2hours 15minutes; > > in the Xandros Linux you can turn off the NIC as well with Fn+F2 which > in FreeBSD does not work at boot stage, i.e. when you may defer the > booting in the boot loader countdown; Yes, this only works after booting. At least on the 701. > is there any way to switch this off without going into the BIOS? After booting you can unload ath module and press Fn+F2. It should turn off wireless. The problem is that you can't turn it back on. For that, we need PCIe hotplug support. (That's what Fn+F2 does, it ejects the wireless card). Regards, -- Rui Paulo