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Date:      Thu, 27 May 1999 15:12:55 -0600
From:      Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>
To:        Brad Karp <karp@eecs.harvard.edu>
Cc:        nate@mt.sri.com, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wi driver and WaveLAN IEEE 802.11 Turbo cards
Message-ID:  <199905272112.PAA28733@mt.sri.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905272110.RAA09716@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>
References:  <199905272110.RAA09716@dominator.eecs.harvard.edu>

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> > Are you sure of this?  The impression I got from Lucent was that power
> > savings mode was a function of the client driver, not of the base
> > station.
> 
> I am absolutely certain that one needs a base station to do power saving
> on 802.11 WaveLAN cards from Lucent.
> 
> Power savings must be *enabled* by the client driver. But they require
> the cooperation of a base station.

*sigh*  Which base stations support this?  The WavePoint-II I have
pre-dates the power savings stuff, so I don't know how it would support
it.

> I have this directly from two independent contacts at Lucent, from the
> commercial Lucent Linux driver source files, and from my own personal
> tests.

I was just making sure.  They don't make it that plain from the support
site. :(



Nate


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