TX power - growl!

Jouni Malinen jkmaline at cc.hut.fi
Sun Apr 4 13:58:27 EDT 2004


On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 06:35:15PM -0500, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Also, look for HFA384X_RID_TXPOWERMAX.  It's currently unused.  It can be
> relevant.  Reenable prism2_ioctl_giwtxpow() and try changing that RID by
> hostap_rid utility.  See iwconfig output for the tx power read from the
> baseband processor.  Not tested but may work.

This would be a nice way to limit the TX power and I'll start using it
if it works on most cards. So far, I have only tested it with
HFA3841/Prism2 (STA f/w 1.7.1) and I didn't see any difference in the TX
power no matter what value I used in that register..

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA



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