From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu May 27 14: 0:50 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (unknown [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B692515605 for ; Thu, 27 May 1999 14:00:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00869; Thu, 27 May 1999 15:00:36 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA28564; Thu, 27 May 1999 15:00:35 -0600 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 15:00:35 -0600 Message-Id: <199905272100.PAA28564@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Brad Karp Cc: raj@cisco.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wi driver and WaveLAN IEEE 802.11 Turbo cards In-Reply-To: <199905272049.QAA09609@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <199905272049.QAA09609@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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