On 12/18/2009 12:59 PM, Florian Zumbiehl wrote: > > Well, yeah, I meant "payload I care about", of course :-) > > For comparison, if I plug in and configure my prism2 card to connect > to the same AP, power consumption goes up by ~ 2 Watts while idling. > Given that it seems to be possible to build a wifi interface (plus driver) > that does manage to stay connected on a budget of ~ 2 Watts, I would hope > that there is such a thing for USB, too. b-only would be fine, too - it's > USB 1.1 only, anyhow. I have no idea what the relative power consumption is for USB and PCI. Certainly, a PCI card can assume a cleaner power source - the USB is going to have to do heavier regulation. One other thing to try is to turn off the LED. Unset CONFIG_MAC80211_LEDS in your .config. That should save some power. -- 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
