[Voyage-linux] Re: [Voyage-products] error in madwifi-tools

[Toth Szabolcs]

I tired the following  but nothing changed:
You can see that the Tx-Power hasn't gone above 15dBm however my card can
give 27dBm.

wrap2c:~# iwconfig ath0 txpower auto
wrap2c:~# iwconfig ath0
ath0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"ajka-air"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access
Point: 00:15:6D:10:00:43
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power:12 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wrap2c:~# iwconfig ath0 txpower fixed
wrap2c:~# iwconfig ath0
ath0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"ajka-air"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access
Point: 00:15:6D:10:00:43
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=12 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

wrap2c:~# iwconfig ath0 txpower 400mW
wrap2c:~# iwconfig ath0
ath0      IEEE 802.11b  ESSID:"ajka-air"
          Mode:Master  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access
Point: 00:15:6D:10:00:43
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=15 dBm   Sensitivity=0/3
          Retry:off   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=0/94  Signal level=-95 dBm  Noise level=-95 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0


On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Punky Tse wrote:

> Did you try the instruction in:
> http://madwifi.sourceforge.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=txpower&s=txpower
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> Toth Szabolcs wrote:
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> >Hi !
> >
> >I was unable to set the tx power above 15-20dbm with the madwifi-tools.
> >I have a card with 400mW txpower so I can't use it well.
> >
> >Szabolcs Toth
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