Powering down an Atheros 5007 with madwifi drivers

Michele m.zarri at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 19:34:00 UTC 2008


2008/6/9  <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.
>> 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

Hello J,

That would work, however I would like to use the keyboard shortcut
just rather than having to power down the computer to change the bios
settings.

Cheers,

Michele




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