#9145 NORM Not Tri: Disabling the radio in control panel should power-down WiFi chip

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#9145: Disabling the radio in control panel should power-down WiFi chip
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 Reporter:  gnu                 |                 Owner:  marco        
     Type:  defect              |                Status:  new          
 Priority:  normal              |             Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  sugar               |               Version:  not specified
 Keywords:  wifi, radio, power  |           Next_action:  design       
 Verified:  0                   |   Deployment_affected:               
Blockedby:                      |              Blocking:               
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 Currently, the control panel's "Radio" checkbox only controls the power to
 the RF section of the WiFi chip.  When the radio is disabled, it should
 also save massive power (1w or more) by powering
 off the entire WiFi chip.

 When the radio is re-enabled, it should cleanly power-on the WiFi chip and
 resume whatever radio settings it previously had.

 (Note that if Extreme Power Management is enabled, the radio will remain
 off even if enabled here.)

 Related tickets include #8948, #8424, #8062, #7047, #6995.  If #6995 is
 fixed, it may be possible to turn off and power down the radio merely by
 hitting Disable or Disconnect on the Frame icons for the Wifi and the
 Mesh.  Then this control panel item would not be needed (unless on reboot
 the system automatically turns on the WiFi -- then this would provide a
 way to keep it off forever).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/9145>
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