I just received one of these mini-pcie cards and stuck it in my netbook, after a little fiddling around I got it working brilliantly with mplayer, however it's idle power consumption concerns me...
I typically can get up to 7.5 hours on battery on this machine (idling, of course), but with this card installed battery life is reduced by just over an hour, even when not in use.
Having the kernel driver module loaded or not makes no real difference.
Anyone else have any such experiences with this thing, or any advice/tips on how to truly "suspend" the card when not in use?
ASPM is active, with L0 and L1 supported by the card according to lspci.
At this rate I may end up ordering a mini-pcie to pcie adapter and just using it in my desktop instead...
I typically can get up to 7.5 hours on battery on this machine (idling, of course), but with this card installed battery life is reduced by just over an hour, even when not in use.
Having the kernel driver module loaded or not makes no real difference.
Anyone else have any such experiences with this thing, or any advice/tips on how to truly "suspend" the card when not in use?
ASPM is active, with L0 and L1 supported by the card according to lspci.
At this rate I may end up ordering a mini-pcie to pcie adapter and just using it in my desktop instead...
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