"ext Andrew Daviel" <advax@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > I opened a ticket with Proxim. Very good, thanks. > They suggest turning off SSID broadcast and see if that reduces the > battery use. Sounds like b/s to me, but I may be wrong. Yes, that has nothing to do with your problem. > If I try that at home, I have to mark the connection as "hidden" > otherwise I can't select it to connect to, and I suspect it would > annoy people at work. I still get beacons every 100ms. Yeah, hiding SSID just makes it more difficult (=slower) to find the network while scanning, because you have to explicitly scan for all saved networks. My strong recommendation is to avoid that feature altogether, and it doesn't really improve security. > I can't set the wireless chip in my IBM laptop to monitor mode > (atheros/madwifi driver) Madwifi does it a bit differently, here's some documentation: http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/MonitorModeInterface -- Kalle Valo _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
