From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 8 07:13:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 316DE37B401 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:13:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [66.127.85.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EAF43F85 for ; Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Received: from melange.errno.com (melange.errno.com [66.127.85.82]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h68EDU7N066816 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 8 Jul 2003 07:13:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@errno.com) Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 07:13:30 -0700 From: Sam Leffler To: Lukas Ertl 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> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.3 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Experiences with ath(4) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 14:13:32 -0000 >> > *) 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