On Fri, 2022-12-02 at 10:21 -0500, Bruno Dantas wrote: > > Maybe doing a wifi network scan requires more power than just > authenticating with an AP and using the network? And maybe my after- > market 802.11ac adapter requires a bit more power than the 802.11n > adapters that were around when this laptop was made? If so, maybe it > takes this old laptop's PCI bus two attempts before the 802.11ac > adapter has enough power to do an accurate network scan? That's a lot > of maybes, but it's my best guess given the behavior I'm observing. > FWIW - and sorry I didn't get around to answering here earlier - that doesn't really make a lot of sense - we're talking about the report of "received signal strength", which is pretty much unrelated to the power you need to actually receive. But as to what's actually going on I still have no clue either, sorry. johannes
