Bug 28972
| Summary: | Unable to iwconfig sens for device rt2860 | ||
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| Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | jd1008 |
| Component: | network-wireless | Assignee: | drivers_network-wireless (drivers_network-wireless) |
| Status: | CLOSED INVALID | ||
| Severity: | high | CC: | linville, mike.cloaked |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 2.6.37 | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
mac80211-based drivers simply do not support setting that parameter. These drivers are simple and do not roam on their own. Instead they rely on a userland component (e.g. wpa_supplicant) to do the roaming. |
# iwconfig wlan0 sens -90 Error for wireless request "Set Sensitivity" (8B08) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. # iwconfig wlan0 sens -70 Error for wireless request "Set Sensitivity" (8B08) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. # iwconfig wlan0 sens -60 Error for wireless request "Set Sensitivity" (8B08) : SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported. # lsmod | grep rt2 rt2800pci 6723 0 rt2800lib 28134 1 rt2800pci rt2x00pci 4001 1 rt2800pci rt2x00lib 25300 3 rt2800pci,rt2800lib,rt2x00pci On some other driver, as reported by a user on the fedora users mailing list, it does work: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2011-February/392324.html