IEEE power saving mode

[saravanan at iwavesystems.com]

Hi Rick,

You can check for any private ioctl support is there or not?
Try to access using iwpriv commands, as you told reducing battery usage,
we have to try how to reduce the radio activity.

Thanks and Regards
Saravanan.N



> Saravanan,
>
> The main purpose for power save mode is reducing battery usage.  Since
> ad-hoc nodes cannot asynchronously receive in deepsleep,
> IEEE power save mode is desired.  The power save mode commands succeed
> in ad-hoc mode, but there is no difference in
> power consumption.  Is there anything else that is necessary besides
> 'iwconfig wlan0 power on'?
>
> Thanks,
> Rick
>
>
>
>
> saravanan at iwavesystems.com wrote:
>> Hi Roger,
>>
>> Power mode on/off works well in Infrastructure mode.
>> Better you can try private IOCTL like deepsleep by
>> iwconfig wlan0 power period for ad-hoc mode. Can I know what is the
>> intention for going power save mode, either to reduce the battery usage
>> or
>> there will not be any traffic for specific period.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Saravanan.N
>>
>
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