Powering down an Atheros 5007 with madwifi drivers

[jmurray at whoi.edu]

Quoting Michele <m.zarri at gmail.com>:

> Hello,
>
> I have an Asus laptop with an Atheros 5007 wifi card that I run using
> madwifi.
>
> Unfortunately the acpi script asus-wireless.sh in /etc/acpi which is
> invoked when I press Fn+F2 does not work.
> This script calls a function that looks for
> /sys/class/net/ath0/device/power/state or
> /sys/class/net/ath0/device/rf_kill however I have neither of these
> files on my computer.
> I am not using the asus-acpi module which has been deprecated in
> favour of the asus-laptop module.
>
> Googling I have found a script that brings the if down (ifdown ath0),
> however running iwconfig it seems that the wireless lan card still
> transmits power which is not what I want (I want to save as much power
> as I can).
>
> I tried to ask on the madwifi support list/irc channel but I was told
> that this is not a problem of the madwifi driver but rather a problem
> of Ubuntu.
>
> In summary: any suggestions on how I can power down completely the
> wireless lan?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michele

Perhaps you can disable the card on the BIOs level. Kind of inconvenient, but it
would save the power.

-jmurray




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