Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:13:30 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with ath(4) Message-ID: <686883356.1057648410@melange.errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20030708085800.R733@leelou.in.tern> References: <20030705122054.H693@korben.in.tern> <634415300.1057595943@melange.errno.com> <20030708085800.R733@leelou.in.tern>
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>> > *) Powersavemode seems to be not supported at all (and thus it eats the >> > battery like a "make world"): >> > >> ># ifconfig ath0 powersave on >> > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument >> >> man ath(4) > > The man page says "not fully", not "not supported at all". > I'll fix the man page :) Actually, there are several things going on wrt power. There is the 802.11 power save mode of operation where the station goes to sleep and wakes up in time to get a DTIM messages from the AP. And there are settings in the Atheros h/w that allow you to force the chip into a power saving mode between listening for beacons or otherwise automatically waking up to process frames. The former is not supported but many firmware-based cards do support it. The latter is what the manual page refers to. >> > *) Shared Key Authentication seems to be not supported either: >> > >> ># ifconfig ath0 authmode shared >> > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument >> >> Never has been supported under FreeBSD for any 802.11 card (at least not >> that I'm aware of). > > Ah, didn't know that, since ifconfig claims that "shared" is a valid mode. Valid yes. Supported no. Maybe soon. Sam
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