To expand on James' excellent notes... On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 11:59 PM, James Cameron <[email protected]> wrote: > The beacon is used for timing the transmissions, so that they occur in
And that is _all_ it can do. It just broadcasts a beacon, like a metronome for a band recording in a studio. > This is implemented in the wireless device firmware, not in the host, > not in the CPU, not in the kernel, not in the user-space networking > tools. In other words, in practice we can't patch it to be smarter. m -- [email protected] [email protected] -- Software Architect - OLPC - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
