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From: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
To: "sedat.dilek@gmail.com" <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"ath5k-users@lists.ath5k.org" <ath5k-users@lists.ath5k.org>
Subject: Re: ath5k: controlling powersave with iw or iwconfig fails
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011 04:46:32 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1319111192.54460.YahooMailNeo@web161206.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+icZUXyYSVUA-PTCQB7z167iLAnh83DEJxOGoYB4qxaFkTZog@mail.gmail.com>

iw is 0.9.22, but I just found part of the answer myself. Controlling PS in 

IBSS mode is not supported (I failed to mention the IBSS part in my previous 

mail).

Question: Is any power saving going on in IBSS mode at all? I'm seeing lots 

of Probe-Requests that I thought were related to PS.

 
-- 
Regards 
Joerg 



----- Ursprüngliche Message -----
> Von: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@googlemail.com>
> An: Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>; "ath5k-users@lists.ath5k.org" <ath5k-users@lists.ath5k.org>
> Gesendet: 13:33 Donnerstag, 20.Oktober 2011 
> Betreff: Re: ath5k: controlling powersave with iw or iwconfig fails
> 
> Which iw version?
> 
> - Sedat -
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Joerg Pommnitz <pommnitz@yahoo.com> 
> wrote:
>>  Hello all,
>>  trying to disable PS on ath5k (Linux 3.0) gives:
>> 
>>  iw dev wlan0 set power_save off
>>  command failed: Operation not supported (-95)
>> 
>> 
>>  Is there any special magic required to disable power saving?
>>  It seems to interfere with our amplifier...
>> 
>> 
>>  --
>>  Regards
>>  Joerg
>> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-20 11:19 ath5k: controlling powersave with iw or iwconfig fails Joerg Pommnitz
2011-10-20 11:33 ` Sedat Dilek
2011-10-20 11:46   ` Joerg Pommnitz [this message]
2011-10-20 11:46   ` Mohammed Shafi
2011-10-20 14:29     ` Bob Copeland

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