Beacon Intervals

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Tue Nov 23 00:59:11 EST 2004


On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 05:08:57AM -0000, Ashwin Rao wrote:

> I am using the hostap driver 0.2.5 on a prism card.
> I can increase the beacon interval upto only 4.xxx seconds i.e giving 4096 as a parameter for beacon_int. For values above this it is ineffective, i.e the beacon interval field in the beacon has the value set by the iwpriv command, but the beacons are transmitted in an interval of 0.1 seconds.
> Can I set the beacon interval to large values like say 10 seconds, If yes then how? 

No, this 4096 is the firmware limit for the beacon interval.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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