Aleksandar Milivojevic <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Half-related to above, and purely from user perspective. Is there a > way to disable power saving for WiFi cards globally by default (for > example, by passing an option to device driver)? Having power saving > turned on by default makes sense for laptops, but doesn't make much > sense for desktops. And in my case (due to problem with at least some > rt2xxx chips that Ivo described) it causes relatively frequent > disconnects/reconnects from/to AP due to lost beacons. > > For my desktop system, I'd rather pass an option to device driver to > have power saving default to off, and have a smoother network > experience. There is CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS kconfig option, but I'm not aware of any other way to globally do this. I can only think of using iw or iwconfig to disable power save per device. -- Kalle Valo -- 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
