On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, ext Stuffed Crust wrote: > You may hear another beacon when the STA is awake, you may not. BSSID > filtering has nothing to do with 802.11 power save, but rather is > intented to reduce the host load (interrupts, processing overhead) and > thus the host power consumption. I know that and I know a bit about 802.11 PS as well. I was talking about host powersaving, not 802.11. Sorry for the confusion. What I meant is that having an 802.11 stack capable of living with less than a beacon every couple of beacon intervals would be nice as well. Cheers, Samuel. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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