Did you try *iwconfig wlan0 txpower auto *or *iwconfig wlan0 txpower fixed* the man page indicates that one of those would enable power control, but it's not 100% clear which.
On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 11:50 AM, Duane Attaway [email protected]wrote:
Unfortunately, the iwconfig txpower setting doesn't seem to lower the power. I don't need to transmit to the entire neighborhood. And when I send large files for half an hour or more, I need to reboot by taking out the battery to reset the wireless module. It gets that hot.
The reception on the card is quite good too. Very good signal to noise ratio.
localhost dattaway # iwconfig wlan0 wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:"ilikecheesereallyido" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:14:BF:04:F6:2F Bit Rate=12 Mb/s Tx-Power=27 dBm Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality=40/100 Signal level:-76 dBm Noise level=-102 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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