[ltp] Re: T30: Turn off the WiFi Radio?

[Daniel Pittman]

On Thu, 6 May 2004, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> On Thu, 6 May 2004, Uwe Walter wrote:
> 
>> On Do, 2004-05-06 at 06:17, Atul Chitnis wrote:
>> > I just realise that despite my not telling my machine (T30, FC1) to
>> > bring up the WiFi interface (IBM High Rate Wireless LAN Mini-PCI
>> > Adapter) at
>> 
>> So, this is the atheros card with the madwifi driver?
> 
> No, this is the Intersil Prism2.5 PCI, and I use it with either
> hostap_pci or orinoco_pci drivers.
> 
>> (I haven't examined, if "ifconfig ath0 down" would also help. 
>> However, it does not turn off the LED, so I rely on unloading the
>> modules.)
> 
> Isn't there some kind of hardware probe that will tell me the status
> of the radio?

You should be able to do:

] iwconfig wlan0 txpower off

That will turn off the radio.  Conversely, to turn it on again:

] iwconfig wlan0 txpower on

Also, the driver should power on the radio automatically when you bring
the interface up.

    Daniel

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