Return-path: Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.19.149.2]:56922 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757234Ab0JHQwf (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:52:35 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.105]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:52:26 -0700 Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:52:32 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: Ben Greear CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" , ath9k , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] trying to set tx power (using txpower option) Message-ID: <20101008165232.GI10149@tux> References: <20101008111221.5425.qmail@stuge.se> <4CAF4B70.9050001@candelatech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" In-Reply-To: <4CAF4B70.9050001@candelatech.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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