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Re: iwconfig power timeout

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On Sat, 2008-11-08 at 12:03 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to set power save timeout for mac80211 with iwconfig, but
> I'm having problems with iwconfig on Nokia N810:
> 
> Nokia-N810-35-3:~# iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 500m
> Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
>     invalid argument "500m".
> Nokia-N810-35-3:~# iwconfig wlan0 power timeout 3
> Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
>     invalid argument "3".
> Nokia-N810-35-3:~# 
> 
> Looking at iwconfig sources the error means that either my syntax is
> wrong or iwconfig has a bug in the parser. I'm guessing the latter
> based on reading iwconfig(5). But before I will start investigating
> iwconfig's magic, has anyone else seen this?

Looks like mac80211 is rejecting that setting with -EINVAL, and that may
well be true.

johannes

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