Luis, thanks for the hint, it never occured to me that WoL could affect a machine that is already "awake". Anyway, I did some more and more caruful measurements using powerstat and after these it seems that the problem is with powertop after all. Sorry for the mistake.
When unloading the sky2 module with active network otherwise (i.e. wifi), there is actually no change in power usage at all! When reloading the sky2 module it doesn't even appear in powertop. When activating networking again in network-manager (God knows what that does exactly), it reappears as power hog. However, measuring again, there is only a minimal increase in actual power usage as reported by the battery (about .13W with the standard deviation of the measurements being higher than that). So I guess what I saw in the first place was other networking stuff or just fluctuations. Sorry again for doing the appropriate measurements *after* filing the report. I'm moving this to the powertop package as the problem seems to be in the estimates alone. Bringing up an actual link BTW will make powertop show 6W or so for the device although the overall system usage is only 9W (from 7 before the link). ** Package changed: linux (Ubuntu) => powertop (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/961172 Title: sky2 draws up to 1.27W of power without a link To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/powertop/+bug/961172/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
