The default of 500ms is pretty high, and leads to the device being awake at least 50% of the time under such light traffic conditions as a simple 1 second interval ping. Reduce to just 100ms -- it should have a similar effect while providing a better sleep time. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/wireless/core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- wireless-testing.orig/net/wireless/core.c 2009-07-31 11:15:32.000000000 +0200 +++ wireless-testing/net/wireless/core.c 2009-07-31 11:15:40.000000000 +0200 @@ -673,7 +673,7 @@ static int cfg80211_netdev_notifier_call wdev->wext.default_mgmt_key = -1; wdev->wext.connect.auth_type = NL80211_AUTHTYPE_AUTOMATIC; wdev->wext.ps = CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS_VALUE; - wdev->wext.ps_timeout = 500; + wdev->wext.ps_timeout = 100; if (rdev->ops->set_power_mgmt) if (rdev->ops->set_power_mgmt(wdev->wiphy, dev, wdev->wext.ps, -- 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