wifi - Atheros IBM a/b/g - radio off when iddle

[kajencik]

Hello,
I just discovered this, for me strange, behavior of my R50p, I'm now connected to the internet through bluetooth and my cellphone, but the wifi scanning reveals some access points, so I wanted to keep the wifi online and see whats out there from time to time, so I didn't turn off the wifi radio, and the wifi was diconnected.

After a while I took a look and whoa! the wifi radio is off, so I turned it on, but after a while it was off again. The bluetooth is on all time, if connected or not, also when associated, the wifi connection is rock stable, this kind of seems to as a power saving behavior....

It's acually not a problem to activate the wifi again, but I don't want the computer to do a decisions for its own Is this normal behavior? I have latest drivers for the wifi and I'm using the native windows wifi configuration tool, not the access conectiaon (which I have installed too, but disabled, I like the windows wifi configuration more).

I've also gone through the wifi card configuration in the device manager, but there seems to be no option for turning on or off this "self powering off".

[thePCxp]

My R51 does this too. The wi-fi radio turns off when its not in use, so when you are not using the wi-fi (and by that, I mean when you are not connencted to a network), it turns off. (I think that this is some sort of power-saving feature.)

[ajkula66]

You should be able to kill this feature in XP...if I'm not mistaken, here's how:

Network Connections-Wireless-Properties-General-Configure-Power Management, then uncheck "allow the computer to turn off this device to save power" and save.

Hope this helps.

[kajencik]

Thank you for advice George, unfortunatelly, I see the power management tab in others devices properties, but not in the wireless adapter itself, should it really exist along with the wifi card?

[ajkula66]

Well, it should...I've pulled the sequence after setting up my new R60 last night...hmmmm.....I'll come back to you about this...