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To: Dennis Borgmann <dennis.borgmann@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [iw, ath5k] setting of antennas
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Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 20:06:38 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
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 On Fri, 15 Apr 2011 19:18:50 +0200, Dennis Borgmann wrote:
> Is it only possible to set the bitmap of used antennas via iw(8) like 
> this:
>
> phy <phyname> set antenna <bitmap> | all | <tx bitmap> <rx bitmap>
>
> Or is there a way to this with an IOCTL or similar in an own program?
>
> I do also know of the (deprecated) way to this via debugfs, but I'd
> really like to do it on my own in a C-program as part of other things 
> to
> be done.

 iw is a C program too ...........

 johannes