Acer Aspire One built in wireless really 500mW?

[Monty J. Harder]

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 <dattaway at dattaway.net>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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