On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Andrea Merello <andreamrl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hmm.. Well.. I guess that effectively a USB softmac card on a slow > computer might produce a noticeable overhead, even if I never tried > before.. Oh, I have an old machine with a celeron 366Mhz, where I run a zd1211 with the vendor driver as AP.... throughput to a USB disk sharing a hub something like 430kB/s but can be over 70kB to the the local non-USB hard disk. (some of the difference in speed is obviously just data bandwidth contention). There are significant overhead at the USB level, I think; but in any case, the CPU probably can't sleep because the USB sub-system is always doing something, if even just for processing beacons. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
