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On 4/18/2012 1:35 PM, Tino Keitel wrote:
> up to 2.6.38, the iwl4965 driver was able to use power saving features
> by invoking "iwconfig<interface>  power on", at least when unsetting
> the broken_powersave variable.

This isn't quite correct. Yes, power saving was enabled there, but 
relatively frequently it caused the device to crash. Therefore, it was 
disabled as a stability fix, not to remove powersaving from you :)

johannes