TX power lower setting from the WUI is ignored

jon · 8 May 2023 20:38

maybe others in the same boat!

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

src/initscripts/packages/hostapd

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          		# First set to any country then reset to World (00)
          		# and then set new country because the card is only
          		# reprogrammed if the region was changed.
          		/usr/sbin/iw reg set DE
          		/usr/sbin/iw reg set 00
          		/usr/sbin/iw reg set $COUNTRY
          
          		/usr/sbin/iwconfig $INTERFACE channel $CHANNEL 2>/dev/null
          
          		ip link set ${INTERFACE} up 2>/dev/null
          		/usr/sbin/iwconfig $INTERFACE txpower $TXPOWER 2>/dev/null
          
          		/usr/bin/hostapd -P /var/run/hostapd /etc/hostapd.conf >/dev/null 2>&1 &
          
          		sleep 3
          
          		if [ "$(/usr/sbin/iwconfig $INTERFACE | /bin/grep "Mode:Master")" == "" ]; then
          			killproc /usr/bin/hostapd > /dev/null 2>&1
          			boot_mesg "Try to create additional AP device ..." 
          			ip link set ${INTERFACE} down
          			ip link set ${INTERFACE} name ${INTERFACE}_man

but gone in 2021: