nobody knows ?!?!?! whatever i set my domain's power limit to is appearantly the power output of my alfa aws036nha device it doesn't stop at a 27db or so or whatever the device's limit is. i tried 60db just for the heck of it in db.txt and that was the showing tx power in iwconfig though i doubt that's the actual power output :) On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Jason Mclaughlin <mcjason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > to better word myself... what i meant was, with the ath9k driver.... > you're tx power seems to go as high as you say your limit is in db.txt > > On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Jason Mclaughlin <mcjason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> was wondering... with a AEUS036NHA wireless adapater (ath9k), why >> does it seem like I can set the power arbitrarily higher if I make my >> own regulatory.bin >> from the crda package. I doubt for real that's the power since the >> adapater is rated at 1000mw afaik. >> >> I wanted to test if it was really having more power than 20db when I >> found out how to do that, but I suspiciously though it was just saying >> it's as high >> as you make db.txt say. This seems true at a whopping 48db (I never >> did anything like connect to someone, just rebooted at turned it back >> to 30). >> >> Also wanted to know, does it really do 30db? I noticed between two >> adapaters a mild improvement when setting it higher than 20 but it's >> hard to tell. >> >> >> root@debian:/home/jason# iwconfig >> wlan2 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any >> Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=48 dBm >> Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off >> Encryption key:off >> Power Management:off >> >> eth0 no wireless extensions. >> >> lo no wireless extensions. >> >> wlan0 IEEE 802.11bgn ESSID:off/any >> Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=16 dBm >> Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off >> Encryption key:off >> Power Management:off -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
