Re: Power and 802.11b PC card usage

Hello Mark,

I'm not sure this is a problem or a 'spec', I have the same
experience. I assume the jacket itself provide power to my
11b and ran out by 2-4 hrs.

Yusuke

From: "Mark C . Langston" <mark@bitshift.org>
Subject: [Familiar] Power and 802.11b PC card usage
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 10:53:41 -0700

> Last week was a wonderful field test for my iPaq/PC card
> sleeve/WaveLAN Gold card. For the entire week, I used this plus my
> Stowaway keyboard in lieu of my notebook during the Black Hat and
> DefCon conferences. Almost everyone who saw it was impressed. Doubly
> so when I explained it was running Linux and X11.
>
> One oddity I noticed: Once the battery reached the neighborhood of 50%
> charge (as reported by apm; this generally took 2-3 hours of constant
> wireless/keyboard use), the 802.11 card would cease to function. In
> fact, the card would lose power, and the OS would no longer report a
> card present in the slot.
>
> Have other people experienced this? Is it a known problem?
>
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> Mark C. Langston
> mark@bitshift.org
> Systems & Network Admin
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Received on Mon Jul 16 18:42:58 2001