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[pemasu]

Artsown. Rerwin created first test pet. It has solution to turn off wireless automatic power saving property...if the solution works. Install the pet and reboot. Of course disable your solutions first. Please, post feedback here.

Also pdiag tarball posted here might help. If it works or not.

[artsown]

Pemasu, on sqeeze I removed the line that does my fix, then installed the
Pet and rebooted. Frisbee took a long time to connect and wlan0 power
management was ON instead of OFF. Second reboot the same. On the
third, Frisbee couldn't establish a connection, presumably because pwr
mgmt is ON instead of OFF.

Remember that on squeeze I had to move my fix to later in the startup
sequence than usual, I placed it after the sleep 5 line in Frisbee_tray
in the /root/startup group.

Sorry, I forgot the tarball and I'm not in sqeeze right now. Let me know
if you or rerwin need it.

Also, I wonder is his Pet is ok to try on Slacko 5.4? It might be interesting
to see if it works there but not on squeeze.

Art

[pemasu]

Artsown. It would help if you test this pet in all problematic puppy distros. This pet is just first trial to find generic solution. And pdiag or pmodemdiag tar balls would help. Pdiag is more sophisticated, if you copy it from squeeze puppy.

In console: which pdiag and you find out where it is.

[artsown]

Pemasu, here's the result of pmodemdiag in squeeze. The console reported there is no pdiag.

[artsown]

Pemasu, here's the pmodemdiag result fpr Slacko 5.4 which also
starts up with power management ON for wlan0 and which also
has no pdiag.

[artsown]

Pemasu, here's pmodemdiag result for Precise 5.4.3
Precise also start up with pwr mgnt ON and the Pet
installed.

[pemasu]

Artsown. Yes, the syntax in the /etc/network/if-up.d/wifi_disable_power_management file:

[pemasu]

Heh. Next trial for rt2500pci wlan power sawing disabling.

[artsown]

pemasu, the tarball was done in Slacko 5.4. Power management
on wlan0 is ON after installing the pet and rebooting.

Aty

[pemasu]

Artsown. Oh well. I believe Rerwin follows this thread and sees the result. The right syntax is still under development...as some sites announces...lol

[artsown]

pemasu, I don't understand the logic of testing to see if wlan0 power
management is ON or OFF. It's ON by default on all Pups I've looked
at lately, including 5.2.8 Lucid on a 2.X kernel which has never given me
any wireless problem. The wireless bug began to appear when 3.X
kernel use started. Racy 5.3.9 with 3.0.25 kernel has the bug. Slacko
5.3.1 on a 2.X kernel does not have the problem but 5.3.3 on 3.1.10
kernel does.

Art

[pemasu]

Artsown. These scripts try to determine the need to power off the wlan. And it should power it off. The purpose is trying to find a little more clever generic script to power off wlan power saving feature.

It just looks like these scripts just does not achieve the goal

But...even though you told the power saving is on...the kernel messages tell this:
Feb 5 19:19:23 puppypc10806 user.notice wifi_disable_power_saving: wlan0: power saving disabled to stabilize connections

Are you sure the iwconfig tells that Power Management is On ?

[artsown]

Pemasu, yes I'm sure. In fact, Slacko lost connection, presumably
due to have it ON. But I'll try it again to make double sure.

Art

[artsown]

Pemasu, tried it again and same thing. Wlan0 power management is
ON at startup with the second pet installed.

Art

[don570]

Zigbert has fixed the bug in pburn that caused a pipe error
when using pburn in Exprimo

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=682520#682520

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