Is any way to force wifi to maintain at low power (sleep mode) immediately? Turing on/off radio is too long for my project. Thanks! Best, Hao On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Hao Han <hhanwm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thank you for your quick reply, Gr. AvS. > > According to my understanding, in power save mode (PSM), the station > will go to sleep immediately (i.e. maintaining a very low power) after > sending packet with pwr mgt bit in 802.11 mac header setting to 1. > > My question is if we can force the station to go to such a low power > level by calling some function. > > It seems to me that it costs extra time to disable/enable the radio, > right? I hope to do it very quickly. > > I appreicate your help! > > Best, > Hao > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Arend van Spriel <arend@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 08/24/2011 10:43 AM, Hao Han wrote: >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> I am currently working on a research project based on BCM4329 driver >>> on Nexus One. In the project, I am trying to control wifi radio to sleep >>> and wake up manually (i.e without setting PM_OFF, PM_FAST, or PM_MAX >>> mode). I >>> have digged into the source code for a while, but till now I have no >>> idea how to do that. If possible, could anyone please tell me if there is >>> any function I can call to force wifi radio to sleep or wake up >>> immediately. >>> >>> Any hint is appreciated. Thank you! >>> >>> Best, >>> Hao >>> -- >> >> Hi Hao, >> >> Could please elaborate on what 'wifi radio' means in your description. It >> makes me think about RFKILL, but that may not be the thing you are looking >> for. With it you can disable/enable the radio within the wireless chipset. >> The terms sleep and wakeup feel a little odd when talking about radios. >> >> Gr. AvS >> >> -- >> Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane. >> -- H.P. Lovecraft -- >> >> >> > -- 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
