[PyCON-Organizers] OLPCs not considerate wireless users

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

I've noticed that mesh activity appears to be ALWAYS on.  Even when
the laptop is not doing anything, as in not conected to a school/local
mesh and not sharing any activity.  Sometimes even on Suspend mode I
see the Wireless activity light flashing.  I'm sure this somehow
drains batteries faster than it should and probably adds unnecessary
traffic to a Wiresless network.

My suggestion is to activate the Mesh only when needed: when sharing
an activity or when connecting with someone who does.  Or somehow find
a way to tune it down (e.g. less updates).

On 11/11/07, Noah Kantrowitz <kantrn at rpi.edu> wrote:
> As an absolute fall-back, there is a
> snippet of commands on the wiki to disable the wireless interface
> ("Airplane mode" or similar IIRC).

I've never seen that page.  Link please.


-Ivo