[Madwifi-devel] about DTIM and power-saving

[<fab...@fa...>]

Hi to all!
I'm carrying some measurements for wi-fi link quality in outdoor at the U=
niversity
of Rome Tor Vergata. For this purpose I'm using CB9 pcmcia cards with the=

old code of MADwifi driver and 2 stations in master-managed mode configur=
ation.
I let the Master send broadcast packets as fast as it can and at the same=

time record all the received packets on the managed station.
I've noticed from the client's log that it seems to receive all packets f=
or
about  600-700 ms, then it seems  to go sleeping (nothing received in the=

logs) and then wake up after 3 or 4 beacons.
Can anyone tell me if this could be due to a power-saving configuration a=
nd
DTIM value ? (I saw in the code that dtim is set to a default value of 1,=

so it shouldn't be this the cause of my problem, but I don't know what el=
se
could cause this behaviour of the client)

Thanks, Fabrizio