9 Oct
                
                    2011
                
            
            
                9 Oct
                
                '11
                
            
            
            
        
    
                3:15 a.m.
            
        On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 12:29:01PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
It doesn't seem likely that a Wifi device will consume any amount of power that compares to the backlight on a 15" display, a modern CPU that's doing almost anything, or a spinning hard disk.
Fair point, I'll probably not persist much more with it in that case then... Although, it isn't a huge problem, would unloading the relevant module from the kernel help at all? Cheers, Dan