[ath9k-devel] trying to set tx power (using txpower option)

[Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 09:48:48AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> On 10/08/2010 09:45 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 9:23 AM, At Santos<atsan@hotmail.co.uk>  wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Actually, you can set tx power with iw now:
> >>>
> >>> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw#Setting_TX_power
> >>>
> >>> I will note you will need 2.6.36, or compat-wireless-2.6.36, otherwise
> >>> you have to use iwconfig, setting txpower with nl80211 was only added
> >>> as of 2.6.36.
> >>>
> >>> Luis
> >>
> >> Thanks for the response.
> >>
> >> I'm running with compat-wireless-2.6.36-rc3-1 and I'm finding that iw
> >> doesn't work with fixed or limit:
> >>
> >> $ sudo iw wlan0 set txpower fixed 20
> >> command failed: Operation not supported (-95)
> >>
> >> So it seems it's broken at the moment.
> >> To where should I report the bug?
> >
> > You can use bugzilla.kernel.org please report it there and we can fix
> > it. I can't look into right now though as I'm looking into another
> > issue. If someone else has cycles it would be appreciated.
> 
> I might be able to work on this,

awesome, thanks!

> in wireless-testing tree at least.

All development is assumed to take places on wireless-testing.git anyway, and
to send a fix for older kernels we first must address it there so indeed
its always the right place to do development, even for stable.

  Luis