Any chance this recent change on CVS to sys/net80211/ieee80211_node.c
by damien@ is related?

"Add an ieee80211_notify_dtim() function that drivers should call
after every DTIM in HostAP mode.
Flushes all group addressed MSDUs buffered at the AP for power management."

Hope so!

Cheers,
Damon

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:18 AM, Todd T. Fries <t...@fries.net> wrote:
> There are power savings for 802.11 that OpenBSD does not support; this is
> entirely independent from saving battery via cpu clocking and it is also
> entirely independent from saving battery via adjusting the transmit power
> of the radio.  The power savings for 802.11 actually put the radio to sleep
> for a given interval and wake it up sending a message to the AP which is
> supposed to hold packets for a given client until the client responds,
> which OpenBSD does not do, therefore packetloss ensues.
>
> I know this very well, my BlackBerry Pearl 8120 gets 90-95% packet loss
> with an OpenBSD based AP.
>
> Damien is aware of what needs doing, but I am to understand it is not a
> short or easy road to get there.
>
> Thanks,
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> Penned by Damon McMahon on 20090103  8:09.21, we have:
> | Jussi - thanks for the response, but I've tried that to no effect,
> | e.g. on the Macbook Pro the Energy Saver settings for Mains and
> | Battery modes are identical.
> |
> | On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 05:45:45 +0200, Jussi Peltola <pe...@pelzi.net> wrote:
> | > Disable power saving on the clients.

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