So, if my understanding is correct (and I am not a coder or developer so I may be about to humiliate myself with my ignorance here, but please bear with me for a minute) the infrastructure has been added to net80211 via the new ieee80211_notify_dtim() function, but it's up to the individual drivers e.g. ral(4) to call this function appropriately to enable Power Save Polling in HostAP mode? Or am I way of the track?
I'm just trying to evaluate if it's worth maintaining my OpenBSD access point or look to other options (e.g. a COTS access point with PSP implemented, bridged to the OpenBSD host via ethernet)? I know there are at least a few other people subscribed to this list who have implemented OpenBSD as a wifi access point, some in quite "open" environments e.g. universities - how are they coping? Many thanks to all who are bearing my whining here! On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Damon McMahon <damon.mcma...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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, >> -- >> Todd Fries .. t...@fries.net >> >> _____________________________________________ >> | \ 1.636.410.0632 (voice) >> | Free Daemon Consulting, LLC \ 1.405.227.9094 (voice) >> | http://FreeDaemonConsulting.com \ 1.866.792.3418 (FAX) >> | "..in support of free software solutions." \ 250797 (FWD) >> | \ >> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ >> >> 37E7 D3EB 74D0 8D66 A68D B866 0326 204E 3F42 004A >> http://todd.fries.net/pgp.txt >> >> 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.
