From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 21 21:41:56 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEE4116A403 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E01513C44C for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from [10.0.0.178] ([10.0.0.178]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id l3LLftCW074007 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:41:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Message-ID: <462A852A.8090901@errno.com> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:42:02 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: Errno Consulting User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Macintosh/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Schedko References: <4628DCE6.4050209@insightbb.com> In-Reply-To: <4628DCE6.4050209@insightbb.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.2.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless Problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 21:41:56 -0000 Robert Schedko wrote: > I am having some problems with my pfsense wireless access point I > believe it is with the ath0 cards power management feature. I came to > this conclusion by reading a thread in the forum. I fixed the problem by > going into my laptops wireless nic (Intel) and turned off the power > saving feature. The only problem with this is, I can't make the change > on every laptop that connects to the wireless network. So I was > wondering if there is a way I can disable the power saver feature on my > access point so that the laptop cards will not go into power saver mode? > Your help will be greatly appreciated. As sephe answered, power save support is a requirement of every AP; there's no way to turn it off. You've provided no information about your setup. A while back there was a bug in the ath driver in the handling of packets dispatched in ap mode to stations using power save. But since then I've heard of no s/w issues. Sam