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[Mario <mario.tux@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please keep the mailing-list (ML) in the recipients: these discussions
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Jaume Darder Muxi wrote:
> Hi again, i've been trying your configuration of the laptop-mode, for
> now i only put the wireless  files, and the power consumtion went about
> 13w or 12.5 as min. If i use the
>  intel-sata-powermgmt,sched-mc-power-savings, usb-autosuspend; the power
> will reach the 10w? 

I don't know the exact effects of each single trick: I use all them!

> and how i can use them? installing the package
> laptop-mode-tools? or it comes with the laptop-mode.

They are all contained in the laptop-mode-tools Ubuntu package: you need
to activate each module changing some variables into the related .conf
file. Please, read carefully my other posts (in the ML) about the argument.

> And finally other question, the command  "|iwpriv eth1 set_power 5" does
> the same as configuring the laptop-mode? The comand works? becuse i get
> a No private ioctls message(or something like that, i'm not in my home
> right now).|

I don't use iwpriv to tweak the wireless power saving.
As already stated: the original laptop-mode-tools module use the value
in '/sys/class/net/$IF/device/power_level' but it save few power if
compared with 'iwconfig wlan0 power on' (I don't know why, but that what
I see). My self-made module use both the methods.

Again: write on the ML...

Mario