Re: Question regarding SetTXPower element usage.
John Bicket <jbicket <at> amsterdam.lcs.mit.edu>
2004-12-01 16:34:34 GMT
Hi,
Unfortunately there is no support for transmit power control in the
atheros hal currently, and it just disregards the power value.
--john
Kishore Ramachandran [ramack <at> eden.rutgers.edu] wrote:
>Hi All:
>
>I would like to use this element but I cannot find documentation for the
>same. Currently I am using it as follows:
>
>SetTXPower(POWER a) where a is a constant between 0 and 63 (I looked at
>the source code for this element and saw this range there).
>
>However, when I observe the RSSI using a signal analyzer, there seems to
>be no noticeable change. Am I using this correctly? Is there any
>documentation for the same? What does this range correspond to?
>
>My script (the one generated by madwifi-stripped/gen_config_ap.click with
>the addition of this one line for SetTXPower) installs without complaints
>and functions smoothly as well.
>
>Thanks,
>Kishore
>
>On Mon, 29 Nov 2004, Beyers Cronje wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
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