wireless will not connect on battery

[65duke]

Installed Mint Maya on HP dv7. Connected to wired and wireless just fine, but when I unplug and run on battery wireless quits. If I'm unplugged it will never connect to wireless (stuck on "requesting ip address"), and if I'm plugged in and then unplug all connections stop (firefox will display (cannot connect to server").

I found the Configuration Editor and mate-power-manager under apps, but I don't know enough about editing existing keys or creating a new key to allow wireless to operate while on battery.

Or should this be edited elsewhere?

Suggestions?

[Relative]

Same problem on my Dell laptop - 64-bit Maya. So far, haven't found anywhere to set on/off for the wireless if battery powered. Gotta be around here somewhere.

Mike Cebula

[Relative]

OK. Works now. Changed two entries in the following, lo.ok for the two comments near the bottom of what I extracted

sudo gedit /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/wireless

get_wireless_params() {
# $1 = interface
# $2 = on or off
unset iwpriv iwconfig iwlevel

# Don't do anything if we cannot find a driver for this iface.
[ -L "/sys/class/net/$1/device/driver" ] || return 1
# Skip if not a wireless card.
[ -d "/sys/class/net/$1/wireless" ] || return 1
# Also don't do anything if the device is disabled
[ "$(cat /sys/class/net/$1/device/enable)" = "1" ] || return 1
driver="$(readlink "/sys/class/net/$1/device/driver")"
driver=${driver##*/}
case $driver in
ipw2100) iwpriv_ac="set_power 0"
iwpriv_batt="set_power 5"
iwconfig_ac="power on"
iwconfig_batt="power on";;
ipw3945)
iwpriv_ac="set_power 6"
iwpriv_batt="set_power 7";;
iwl*) if [ -f "/sys/class/net/$1/device/power_level" ]; then
iwlevel_ac=0
iwlevel_batt=3
else
iwconfig_ac="power off"
iwconfig_batt="power off"
#changed the above--------------------------------------
fi;;
*) iwconfig_ac="power off"
iwconfig_batt="power off";;
#changed the above--------------------------------------


Mike Cebula

[Relative]

UPDATE: Last night I updated from Mint 13 64-bit to Mint 14.1 64-bit and the problem does not exist on this version.

Mike Cebula