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

[Adrian Chadd]

Ok, can we please have this added to the PR, so we don't lose track of it?

Thanks so much for popping up and pointing that out!



Adrian


On 2 March 2012 14:33, PseudoCylon <moonlightakkiy at yahoo.ca> wrote:
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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