[arch-general] Wireless LED stays on during suspend

Mantas M. grawity at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 12:55:30 EST 2011


On 2011-12-04 14:11, Karol Babioch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Am 04.12.2011 01:40, schrieb Matthew Monaco:
>> I think new in 3.1 (might have been 3.0) was wireless wake-on-lan. You
>> might be able to use ethtool to see if you have WOL enabled for your
>> wireless card which would prevent it from being powered down.
> 
> My wireless card doesn't seem to support WOL its how I interpret the
> following output:
> 
> [root at vpcs ~]# ethtool wlan0
> Settings for wlan0:
> 	Link detected: yes
> 
> Best regards,
> Karol Babioch
> 

`ethtool` is for Ethernet devices only. Use `iw` for wireless.

| $ iw phy phy0 wowlan show
| command failed: Operation not supported (-95)



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