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sstreiner

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Setting txpower in GUI doesn't work. Using CLI works.
« on: July 31, 2016, 07:06:06 pm »
Hi!

I'm using a APU1D4 with an WLE200NX card (Atheros 9280) running OPNsense 16.7-amd64.
Unfortunately setting the txpower in GUI does not change anything (ifconfig still shows the same txpower).
Changing the setting via CLI (e.g. ifconfig ath0_wlan1 txpower 15.0) does work.

Thanks,
Sam
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Re: Setting txpower in GUI doesn't work. Using CLI works.
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2016, 09:14:16 am »
Hi Sam,

Uh, nice catch! The backend code for this has been commented out since before we forked, apparently because txpower can fail. It does for my run(4) adapter at least:

opnsense: /interfaces.php: The command '/sbin/ifconfig 'run0_wlan1' txpower '95'' returned exit code '1', the output was 'ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not supported'

Let's try this patch[1] to make it run separately / optionally. You can apply it from the root console:

# opnsense-patch 3da906


Cheers,
Franco

[1] https://github.com/opnsense/core/commit/3da906b62436360561c241a9502eee61db40e98a
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