From: Jouni Malinen (jkmaline_at_cc.hut.fi)
Date: 2002-07-24 08:31:10 UTC
On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 03:27:25PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> I would like to examine some numbers in the Production Data Area (PDA)
> concerning transmit power levels. Does anyone know how the PDA is
> downloaded from the radio to the host?
Get the latest CVS snapshot from http://hostap.epitest.fi/ and compile it with PRISM2_DOWNLOAD_SUPPORT defined in driver/modules/hostap_config.h. After loading this driver, you should be able to read PDA contents from /proc/net/hostap/wlan0/pda. utils/prism2_srec.c has example code for parsing the pda data.
> In the PDA numbers, I seek hints on how to interpret and set the registers
> concerning transmit power level on the ISL3861 Baseband Processor.
You can also check BBP configuration with readmif (and change it with writemif) iwpriv commands of the driver without needing to change PDA.
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