Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:51016 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756963Ab0JHQsx (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:48:53 -0400 Message-ID: <4CAF4B70.9050001@candelatech.com> Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:48:48 -0700 From: Ben Greear MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" CC: At Santos , ath9k , linux-wireless Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] trying to set tx power (using txpower option) References: <20101008111221.5425.qmail@stuge.se> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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, in wireless-testing tree at least. Thanks, Ben > > Luis > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com