[ltp] Re: T30: Turn off the WiFi Radio?

[Daniel Pittman]

On Fri, 7 May 2004, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> On Fri, 7 May 2004, Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
>> You should be able to do:
>> 
>> ] iwconfig wlan0 txpower off
>> 
>> That will turn off the radio.  
> 
> Yes, this is what I read. And running this correctly kills my link to
> the AP. What I would really like to do is *query* the status of the
> radio. I can do this under Windows, so the API for it definitely
> exists. But iwconfig doesnt seem to offer any way to query the current
> value of a parameter.

Ah, sorry. I misunderstood your question, and can't help with a
mechanism for finding out the current operating state of the radio...

Regards,
        Daniel

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