[geeks] gps on plane

Scott Howard scott at doc.net.au
Sat Jul 26 18:32:31 CDT 2003


On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:22:22PM -0400, Thomas Gallaway wrote:
> The thing is that 802.11 card in your laptop allways are looking for an 
> access point to associate with even if it's set to a specific one. So 
> there is allways packet's beeing send out called probe requests.

Which is exactly why they tell you to remove/turn off the Wifi card before
you use it on a plane.

  Scott



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