> *) 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

_______________________________________________
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current
To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Reply via email to