Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:61832 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932347Ab0JHQpt (ORCPT ); Fri, 8 Oct 2010 12:45:49 -0400 Received: by pxi15 with SMTP id 15so214174pxi.19 for ; Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:45:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20101008111221.5425.qmail@stuge.se> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 09:45:28 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] trying to set tx power (using txpower option) To: At Santos Cc: ath9k , linux-wireless Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. Luis