On my newish Acer AS5750 I enabled ACPI so that I could enable screen dimming (since it wasn't working as expected). Then once unplugged from the wall socket Wifi latency increased and then quit completely after approx. one minute (BCM43227). Makes portability pretty useless!! Luckily I found the following blog post: http://uselessuseofcat.com/?p=67
On my newish Acer AS5750 I enabled ACPI so that I could enable screen dimming (since it wasn't working as expected). Then once unplugged from the wall socket Wifi latency increased and then quit completely after approx. one minute (BCM43227). Makes portability pretty useless!! Luckily I found the following blog post: http:// uselessuseofcat .com/?p= 67