on 3/15/02 1:14 PM, Marco Mailand at Newton2k1_at_mac.com wrote:
>
>> if the batteries a draining with about 55mA current with inactive
>> WaveLAN and no backlight, it jumps to about 250mA or more when the card is
>> transfering data.
> This is really disappointing. I would state that the designer of this card
> hasn't kept in mind that a portable runs on batteries/accus. If you compare
> these figures with a cell phone or a cordless I'm shure that there are other
> cards which perform better and draw less juice.
The WaveLAN card does have a power saving mode which, if enabled on my
Windows notebook, seems to increase the battery life considerably. At least
part of the power saving seems to be achieved by dynamically switching the
card between 2 Mbps and 11 Mbps modes as required. Hopefully a power saving
mode can be implemented in the Newton driver in the future.
Incidentally, I noticed that there is now an alpha 3 version of the driver
available at:
http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~ngc/eng/newtwave.htm
This fixes the problem that the "old" and "new" drivers both needed to be
installed and works very well for me. I'm very pleased that this driver is
now showing such rapid improvement. Kudos to Hiroshi!
My personal wish list for the next "iterations":
1. Network name configuration
2. Network password configuration (i.e. enabling WEP)
3. Low-power mode
Regards,
Simon
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