On Thursday 03 April 2008 20:38:37 Larry Finger wrote:
> When the mac80211 channel tables were recently changed,
> the power_level member was removed. As a result, the value
> passed to b43legacy in conf->power_level became zero. This
> value is transferred to phy->power_level and used in calculating
> the desired TX power, which thus became zero. This patch does not
> fix all the power problems with b43legacy, but it will be needed
> anyway.
>
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> John,
>
> This is 2.6.25 material.
>
> Larry
>
>
> Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
> +++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c
> @@ -127,6 +127,7 @@ static struct ieee80211_rate __b43legacy
> { \
> .center_freq = (_freq), \
> .hw_value = (_chanid), \
> + .max_power = 0x14, \
> }
> static struct ieee80211_channel b43legacy_bg_chantable[] = {
> CHANTAB_ENT(1, 2412),
>
>
In b43 I set this value to 30.
I dunno what the real HW upper limit is, so I set it so something
that's way above the actual value mac80211 will ever try anyway (because
mac80211 won't try illegal rates, if implemented correctly).
--
Greetings Michael.
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