Bug 252595 - iwm driver does not support setting txpower
Summary: iwm driver does not support setting txpower
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Base System
Classification: Unclassified
Component: wireless (show other bugs)
Version: Unspecified
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-wireless (Nobody)
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Reported: 2021-01-11 20:08 UTC by Mina Galić
Modified: 2021-12-20 23:01 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Mina Galić freebsd_triage 2021-01-11 20:08:22 UTC 
% ifconfig wlan txpower 10
ifconfig: interface wlan does not exist


with the default of 30:

wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
	ether f8:16:54:67:5c:37
	inet6 fe80::fa16:54ff:fe67:5c37%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
	inet6 2a02:908:fbd0:7200:fa16:54ff:fe67:5c37 prefixlen 64 autoconf
	inet 192.168.0.227 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
	groups: wlan
	ssid ButtsHausen channel 6 (2437 MHz 11g) bssid 88:71:b1:a8:ac:99
	regdomain FCC country US authmode WPA2/802.11i privacy ON
	deftxkey UNDEF AES-CCM 2:128-bit txpower 30 bmiss 10 scanvalid 60
	protmode CTS wme roaming MANUAL
	parent interface: iwm0
	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/36Mbps mode 11g
	status: associated
	nd6 options=23<PERFORMNUD,ACCEPT_RTADV,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

my ISP's promised 500 Mbps comes trickling down to 25 kbps.

how can we fix that?
Comment 1 Bjoern A. Zeeb freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-01-11 23:40:29 UTC 
Unlikely to get fixed in iwm still with a complete iwlwifi update coming one day but I'll leave this open in case someone wants to do it.

If your problem is speed then your problem is most likely that iwm only does a/b/g and you are on 'g' and I wouldn't be surprised if the spectrum is a bit crowded there?
Comment 2 Mina Galić freebsd_triage 2021-01-11 23:56:06 UTC 
re iwlwifi, when is "one day"?

how many devices does it take to crowd a network so badly, that bandwidth drops by several orders of magnitude?
Comment 3 Trond Endrestøl 2021-12-20 23:01:11 UTC 
(In reply to Mina Galić from comment #0)
Have you tried running ifconfig(8) on the wlan0 interface?