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Old 08-19-2010, 02:27 AM   #1
Amit Chakraborty
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Unhappy How to Disable Power Management Option of a Lan Card in Fedore/Ubantu

Hi, One of the PC having Ubantu gets disconnected automatically from the network.As we do in normal windows is that we get to the device manger and select the LAN card properties and check off the power management check box similarly how can be do this thing in a linux OS. Please advice......
 
Old 08-20-2010, 05:16 AM   #2
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you can select power management for wi-fi cards with
Quote:
iwconfig interface power {period N|timeout N|saving N|off}
as ifconfig (for lan cards) doesn't seem to have that option you can try to keep connection alive with
Quote:
while true
do
ping www.xxx.com
sleep 10
done
 
Old 08-23-2010, 12:51 AM   #3
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Thanks !! yooy
Thankyou very much yooy.
 
  


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