Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 15:00:35 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu>
Cc:        raj@cisco.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wi driver and WaveLAN IEEE 802.11 Turbo cards
Message-ID:  <199905272100.PAA28564@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905272049.QAA09609@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>
References:  <199905272049.QAA09609@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> The WaveLAN 802.11 base station is a *bit* more than a MAC-level
> bridge.

Really? The WavePoint-II that it sold by Lucent doesn't claim to do any
such things.

> It does packet scheduling to make power saving mode possible on the host
> NICs. That is, one cannot use power saving mode on the host NICs on a
> WaveLAN 802.11 network in ad-hoc mode.

Are you sure of this?  The impression I got from Lucent was that power
savings mode was a function of the client driver, not of the base
station.


Nate


To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199905272100.PAA28564>