Re: [Madwifi-users] Changing txpower has no effect.

[Leigh S. <st...@fl...>]

> From: Sam Leffler <sa...@er...>
> Subject: Re: [Madwifi-users] Changing txpower has no effect.
> Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 17:47:11 -0700
> 
> The per-packet txpower value is used by the h/w to index into a table
> from which the h/w settings are fetched to use in sending the frame.  The
> contents of this table is complicated to explain and not readily
> accessible.  However it is supposed to map txpower values in the range
> [0-63] (6 bits) into equivalent output power for the frame (and yes I did
> check it's contents before claiming TPC was "working").
> 
> I need to special-case a zero txpower setting to mean "turn off the radio".  
> Alternatively I guess I could simply discard packets in the driver if the 
> power is set to zero but that would be a hack.

Hi Sam. Do you have an ETA for the above change (zero txpower)? If its
going to take a while, I will go ahead and whack the driver to discard
packets ...

Thanks!
Lbs

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Leigh B. Stoller
University of Utah - Flux Research Group
http://www.cs.utah.edu/~stoller
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