From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
To: Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@milivojevic.org>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@sig21.net>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rt2x00-users] [RFC] rt2x00: Add autowakeup timer for receiving beacons while in powersave mode
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 10:48:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxm69ajp.fsf@purkki.adurom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinip3CZ8ZsY95E6dXnvhA_wEPSs4M7B+SmPY-ZM@mail.gmail.com> (Aleksandar Milivojevic's message of "Mon\, 7 Feb 2011 15\:33\:19 -0800")
Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@milivojevic.org> writes:
> Half-related to above, and purely from user perspective. Is there a
> way to disable power saving for WiFi cards globally by default (for
> example, by passing an option to device driver)? Having power saving
> turned on by default makes sense for laptops, but doesn't make much
> sense for desktops. And in my case (due to problem with at least some
> rt2xxx chips that Ivo described) it causes relatively frequent
> disconnects/reconnects from/to AP due to lost beacons.
>
> For my desktop system, I'd rather pass an option to device driver to
> have power saving default to off, and have a smoother network
> experience.
There is CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS kconfig option, but I'm not aware
of any other way to globally do this. I can only think of using iw or
iwconfig to disable power save per device.
--
Kalle Valo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-08 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-31 15:00 [RFC] rt2x00: Add autowakeup timer for receiving beacons while in powersave mode Ivo van Doorn
2011-01-31 15:22 ` Johannes Berg
2011-01-31 15:38 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2011-01-31 15:54 ` [rt2x00-users] " Johannes Stezenbach
2011-01-31 18:17 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-01-31 19:00 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2011-01-31 21:05 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-02-02 17:42 ` Kalle Valo
2011-02-02 19:09 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2011-02-10 5:24 ` RA-Jay Hung
2011-02-14 10:14 ` Ivo Van Doorn
2011-02-14 10:25 ` Johannes Berg
2011-02-02 21:29 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-02-07 23:33 ` [rt2x00-users] " Aleksandar Milivojevic
2011-02-08 8:48 ` Kalle Valo [this message]
2011-02-08 19:11 ` Aleksandar Milivojevic
2011-02-09 12:17 ` Kalle Valo
2011-02-09 14:31 ` Johannes Stezenbach
2011-02-08 8:27 ` Kalle Valo
2011-02-08 20:09 ` Johannes Stezenbach
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