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On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:30:26 +0100 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:42:41 -0500, »Q« wrote: |
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> > I wish I knew how to keep it from going off in the first place, |
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> It's probably a good thing, especially if your laptop's battery is as |
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> rubbish as mine |
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I guess so. I'm used to shutting it down with the hardware switch when |
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I'm on battery and not connected to the 'net, and I'd never considered |
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how nice it would be to have it handled automagically. |
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> > for now I'll just give an alias to |
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> > "/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 stop && iwconfig wlan0 txpower on |
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> > && /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start" |
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> There's no need to mess around with aliases, |
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I was already using an alias to restart the interface, just to |
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save typing. But I certainly agree with you that configuring it to |
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power up is a cleaner way to handle it. |
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> the network scripts can |
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> handle this automatically. Add this to /etc/conf.d/net |
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> preup() { |
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> [[ ${IFACE} == "wlan0" ]] && iwconfig wlan0 txpower on |
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> return 0 |
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> } |
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Thanks much. That works nicely. I had tried |
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iwconfig_wlan0="txpower on" |
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In /etc/conf.d/net, as the wireless.example file suggested that as a |
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way to use iwconfig commands, but it didn't work. The power would |
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be turned on, but the card couldn't successfully connect to an AP. |
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Maybe using preup() causes the power to be on sooner? |
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