Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f158.google.com ([209.85.220.158]:45278 "EHLO mail-fx0-f158.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759731AbZC0PNN (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Mar 2009 11:13:13 -0400 Received: by fxm2 with SMTP id 2so1069004fxm.37 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:13:10 -0700 (PDT) To: Davide Pesavento Cc: linux-wireless Subject: Re: ath9k and power management References: <2da21fe50903270727m7b7007ctaa846aea61902436@mail.gmail.com> <87ljqr58oa.fsf@litku.valot.fi> <2da21fe50903270754i26c8be08i206b12a268214f56@mail.gmail.com> <2da21fe50903270807t25962a00w1a5da870641421ea@mail.gmail.com> From: Kalle Valo Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 17:13:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: <2da21fe50903270807t25962a00w1a5da870641421ea@mail.gmail.com> (Davide Pesavento's message of "Fri\, 27 Mar 2009 16\:07\:28 +0100") Message-ID: <87hc1f5798.fsf@litku.valot.fi> (sfid-20090327_161333_442167_B7FC8109) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Davide Pesavento writes: >>> It might be that ath9k doesn't work when timeout is zero (which 'power >>> on' effectively does). You need a fairly new wireless-tools to set the >>> timeout, older versions had a bug with that. >>> >> >> What do you mean by "fairly new"? I have wireless-tools version 29 >> installed, which is the latest stable. Do I need to use version 30 >> beta? >> > > Nevermind, I guess I need the beta version... :-) > > # iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 3 > Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) : > invalid argument "3". Yeah, you need the beta version. I used version 30-pre7 myself. -- Kalle Valo