On 2013/06/04 15:20, stolendata.net wrote: > The man page of ral(4) makes it understood that power saving in host ap > mode is now finally working, but only for certain ralink chipset families > (RT2800 being among those that should work). A list of exceptions is > provided in the man page: "On the RT2500, RT2501 and RT2600 chipsets, host > AP mode doesn't support power saving." > > However, trying to enable power saving on 5.3-RELEASE/i386, whether by > issuing the option to ifconfig or providing it in hostname.if, only yields > the error "SIOCS80211POWER: Invalid argument". > > Excerpt from my dmesg: > > ral0 at pci1 dev 7 function 0 "Ralink RT2860" rev 0x00: apic 2 int 5, > address 00:1f:1f:81:6b:92 > ral0: MAC/BBP RT2860 (rev 0x0102), RF RT2820 (MIMO 2T3R) >
The 'powersave' flag is only for client devices. 'Power saving support for host ap' means that the AP is able to buffer packets for *clients* in power-save mode. There is nothing to configure for this.
