Wirless Kill Command

duke11235 · #1 13th August 2009, 10:11 PM

Is there a command to turn off my Broadcom wireless card to save power. In Apple, the have an Airport off listing under the airport menu, Is there something for Fedora?

bbfuller · #2 14th August 2009, 08:39 AM

Hello duke11235

As no one else has answered you can have my thoughts. If you right click on the NetworkManager icon in the system tray there is a disable wireless.

My broadcom happily reconnects if I use "Enable Wireless" after this.

I'm not sure just how much power it saves though.

I'll be interested if you get any results to hear what they are.

CSchwangler · #3 14th August 2009, 05:36 PM

If you want to turn you wireless kind of permanently, then disabling it in the BIOS - if your laptop has that option - clearly saves the most power. The drawback is, that you would have to reboot in order to go wireless.

duke11235 · #4 14th August 2009, 06:14 PM

It appears to have lowered power intake (for me) from 18 to 16 watts. I'm guessing that'll get me 20-30 more minutes of battery