Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 23:34:27 -0400 (EDT) From: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) To: karp@eecs.harvard.edu (Brad Karp) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_wi Lucent WaveLAN driver: patches and power management Message-ID: <199905070334.XAA20933@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905062059.QAA32433@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu> from "Brad Karp" at May 6, 99 04:59:25 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Brad Karp had to walk into mine and say: [...] > I'm still in denial over having produced my driver for naught, so in the > effort to contribute some shred, here's an enhancement to Bill's driver you > might all want: power management support! > > In short: the WaveLAN PC-Card supports a protocol of alternating sleep/wake, > in the interest of saving power, at the expense of some increased receive > latency. To use this, you *must* use the card with a base station (the > protocol requires the base station's cooperation, and doesn't work in ad-hoc > mode), and you need WavePoint firmware 2.03 or newer, and WaveLAN PC-Card > firmware 2.00 or newer. (Lower revs, and the WaveLAN card will silently ignore > your request to do power management.) FYI, I have applied Brad's power management patches to -current. I also added the ability to set the radio frequency with wicontrol (-f option) and I updated the wicontrol man page. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "Mulder, toads just fell from the sky!" "I guess their parachutes didn't open." ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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