Re: bluetooth and wifi on laptops
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 20:08 +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> At the moment, there is no driver support for the airport extreme card,
> and I don't have any bluetooth devices. So I'd like to be sure that both
> are shut down in order to save energy.
>
> How should I do that ? I've tried hciconfig hci0 down for bluetooth, but
> I don't know if it's enough. For airport, should I disable it from OSX
> and then don't touch anything ?
Well, I'm not sure in what state the firmware leaves both of them, but I
would expect that those chips power manage themselves when not in use...
To be sure, you can probably use setpci to try to force the airport
extreme in D3 state and see if that has any impact on your battery
consumption.
Ben.
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