[Voyage-linux] Setting TXPower for mini-PCI wireless card

[John Jelercic]

Sorry, had the email for the list wrong on my last email

You are completely right, your advice set my country code correctly. It was
my own "autocreate=ap" line that it didn't like. That was left over from
some testing I was doing a while back, I guess I never completely cleaned
up.


So now I have the country code set to 840, verified by running "sysctl -a |
grep country", I get returned country code 840 for ath0. My next question is
that the list of TX-Power options has not changed.


Any other ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: bob [mailto:bob at 88foo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 2:08 PM
To: John Jelercic
Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Setting TXPower for mini-PCI wireless card

sorry, I don't remember where I finally found all the country codes, but 
googled until I found a long list.  840 is US.  Not sure what outdoor 
does in the madwifi code.

John Jelercic wrote:
> Excellent, I'll give it a try. Do you know of a website that lists all of
> the country codes? I'm in the U.S., and I want to make sure I don't do
> anything I'm not supposed to! 
> 
> Also, what does the "outdoor=1" option do?
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob [mailto:bob at 88foo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: John Jelercic
> Cc: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Setting TXPower for mini-PCI wireless card
> 
> Aloha John,
> 
> You can edit edit /etc/modprobe.d/madwifi to set the coutrycode e.g.
> 
> options ath_pci autocreate=none countrycode=840 outdoor=1
> 
> Most high power cards are actually 10 db higher than the madwifi setting.
> 
> iwlist ath0 txpower will show the available txpower settings for the 
> current frequency and rate.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> bob
> 
> 
> John Jelercic wrote:
>> Greetings everyone,
>>
>>  
>>
>> I've been hanging out reading these support threads, it really sounds 
>> like everyone is extremely knowledgeable with Voyage linux and several 
>> different hardware platforms. I can only hope that I can contribute to 
>> make my stay worth while to everyone else!
>>
>>  
>>
>> To begin, I've got an access point setup using an Alix 3C2 board. I've 
>> got the below wireless card installed, and a CF card running Voyage .4.1.
>>
>>  
>>
>> http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=474 
>> <http://www.netgate.com/product_info.php?cPath=26_34&products_id=474>
>>
>>  
>>
>> Everything is truly working great! I'm having problems getting the most 
>> out of the txpower on my wireless card though. I've done some research, 
>> and I'm unclear on whether it is a limitation of the madwifi drivers or 
>> if it has something to do with the country code settings on the card, 
>> but the max txpower I can set the card to is 18dBm (63mW).
>>
>>  
>>
>> Has anyone had any luck with getting it higher than that? I'm confident 
>> I probably won't be able to use the advertised 600mW on the card, but 
>> more than what I'm currently capable of would be most desirable.
>>
>>  
>>
>> A few weeks back when researching the country code for the card, I ran 
>> some commands and determined the country code was set to 0. I could not 
>> find a way to set it to anything else.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thanks for any help that you can provide.
>>
>>  
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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