orinoco_cs - sleep in ad-hoc demo mode ?

[Jouni Malinen]

On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 06:40:04PM +0200, EL-HOIYDI Amre wrote:

> I am working on an application in which I would like to use 802.11 in
> Ad-Hoc demo mode (the non-standard ad-hoc mode without signalling). To
> save energy, I would like to shut the radio off, part of the time, like
> in the standard 802.11 power save mode.

Are you prepared to loosing packets while sleeping? Ad-hoc demo mode
does not implement packet buffering for sleeping stations like IEEE
802.11 BSS or IBSS..

> Is there is a way to instruct the Lucent cards to (quickly) go into
> sleep mode and to (quickly) get it back awake ?

I haven't tested doing this on Lucent cards, but at least with Interil
Prism2 cards this is possible by setting the baseband processor to sleep
mode.


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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA