tx power

Jean Tourrilhes jt at hpl.hp.com
Mon Mar 27 14:15:44 EST 2006


Jouni Malinen wrote :
> 
> On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 08:42:33PM +0300, Dimitris Theoharis wrote:
> 
> > Is there a reaso why i do  not see the tx power level in iwconfig?
> > its a prism2.5 card. A Senao to be more specific. Thanks ;)
> 
> I'm not aware of a way of reading the TX power level reliably from
> Prism2/2.5/3 cards.

	WE-17 has added 'relative' Tx-Power, i.e. txpower which are
not in dBm or mW but in arbitrary/funny units. You could export the
raw value from the register and let the user deal with the rest.
	This was added precisely because you kept complaining about
that ;-)

	Have fun...

	Jean



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