Re: Slightly OT - Wireless

Dave Michelson <[email protected]> Sun, 10 Aug 2003 22:56:59 -0700

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S. Anderson wrote:
> 
>> What does the power consumption of the new 802.11g cards look like. 
>> 802.11b cards tend to shorten battery life considerably.  Are the 11g 
>> cards, with their DSP engines for OFDM, appreciably worse?
> 
> I'll have to test it out for you, can you recommend a reliable way to test 
> it?

Apart from the obvious method, one possibility might be to check out the
discharge rate using

    cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state

with and without the cards installed and active.

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Dave Michelson
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