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Date:      Mon, 12 Jan 2015 09:56:52 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: power off ath0: <Atheros AR946x/AR948x>
Message-ID:  <87A73FD4-485B-4F38-B9D2-3F804BED4905@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <54B3FC5F.3070306@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20150111080530.GA2035@c720-r276659> <54B3FC5F.3070306@FreeBSD.org>

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> On Jan 12, 2015, at 9:54 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>=20
> On 1/11/15 3:05 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:
>>=20
>> Hello,
>>=20
>> Is there a way to completely power-off the Wifi chip in my Acer C720?
>> I tried 'ifconfig ath0 down' which saves around 20 mA. But the LED =
stays
>> on, which let me think it is still someow on-air.
>=20
> Not yet.  You could try setting the tunable to disable power for PCI
> devices without a driver and not include 'ath' in your kernel config.  =
I
> will (soon) commit a new 'devctl' tool to HEAD that would let you do
> 'devctl suspend ath0' to do this.

I=E2=80=99d love to see this tied into the forthcoming work on PCIe hot =
plug as well,
which is one way to power off the slot. But that work seems to be =
stalled=E2=80=A6

Warner


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