As reported on the Novell and Kernel bugzillas: 11 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=890454 and https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81721 Short version: I have a laptop (Lenovo B570) with a built-in Broadcom wireless chipset. Using the 'brcmsmac' driver, I observed very high power consumption: 4000-6000mW as compared to 100-200mW for several other drivers. Trying (openSUSE) kernel 3.16.0-rc7-2-desktop with backports-20140725, that appears to have been reduced to 350-3900mW. A nice change but still much higher than the rtl8192cu that I tested with the same kernel and backports (3-30x higher). -- Jon Software Blacksmith -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
