Re: Disabling wifi to save battery
On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 01:44:57AM BST, Daniel Dalton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've recently purchased a Dell vostro 3350 laptop, and to save battery,
> I was planning to disable wifi, when it wasn't required. On my old
> laptop I could use the rfkill package like so:
> rfkill block wifi
What does "rfkill list" say?
> But it seems to have no effect on my Dell. The wifi hot key on the
> laptop does not seem to work either (from the console). Does anyone have
> any other ideas? If I do ifdown eth1 to bring down wifi, is it likely
> the wifi will still be consuming significant battery?
Yes, until you remove the module, the device is still in use.
What model wifi card is it and what module does it use?
What does "modinfo 'modulename'" say?
Regards,
--
Raf
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