run(4) in AP mode and battery consumption of mobile devices

PseudoCylon moonlightakkiy at yahoo.ca
Fri Mar 2 22:46:42 UTC 2012


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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:59:43 -0800
> From: Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: run(4) in AP mode and battery consumption of mobile
>        devices
> To: Damjan Marion <damjan.marion at gmail.com>
> Cc: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
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> Hi,
>
> I'd get in dirty with an ath nic in monitor mode. See what's going on.
>
> I'd look at what the TIM bits are set in the access point beacon
> frames. Maybe it's doing something weird like waways setting them.

Yep, it does, and it is on todo list.
http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/dev/usb/wlan/if_run.c#L3943

AK


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