[geeks] gps on plane

Thomas Gallaway tgallaway at comcast.net
Sat Jul 26 18:43:05 CDT 2003


They have never told me that before on a flight. I mean I of course did 
it cause I was not stupid but I saw people having them inside. I mean 
somebody with an airport card in his laptop will remember to turn it 
off?

On Saturday, July 26, 2003, at 07:32 PM, Scott Howard wrote:

> 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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