TX power lower setting from the WUI is ignored

Networking WiFi
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I noticed that lowering the value of TX Power field in IPFire/WLanAP does nothing, as the value applied remains always the default. I searched bugzilla to see if this is a known issue and I found this bug report from @ms that seems to indicate this feature is not available in IPFire 2.X. but it is planned for 3.X

Since I do not require a higher transmission power, I did set it manually:

iwconfig blue0 txpower 12

as far as I can tell, it seems to work:

iwconfig blue0
blue0     IEEE 802.11  Mode:Master  Tx-Power=12 dBm   
          Retry short limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Power Management:on

Edit: to make it survive a reboot I inserted the command in /etc/sysconfig/rc.local . Should be this properly documented in the wiki?

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I just bought a wi-fi card and came across the same issue. And the same fix iwconfig blue0 txpower nn.

It would be best to enter a new bug since the old bug is from 2018. If you want reference the 2018 bug.

to me tx power should work. I cannot follow the code to determine what is or is not working…

on the side: what card did you purchase? Is it for an APU device?

EDIT: to answer your question - yes, add in wiki!

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maybe others in the same boat!

EDIT: it looks like the set of txpower was there in 2019:

but gone in 2021:

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Yes, It’s an APU2 with the usual wle600vx.

OK, I will do a bug report and document this in the wiki. As usual Jon can you tell me where?

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How about here?

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Done.

EDIT: since I was there, I added also the VHT caps entry that was missing. I would appreciate the entry being reviewed. Feel free to revert it.

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Bugzilla:
https://bugzilla.ipfire.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13098