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

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

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, in wireless-testing tree at least.

Thanks,
Ben

>
>    Luis
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