Dual Boot - wireless hardware not accessible

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 20 September 2018 01:26:22 Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Wed, 19 Sep 2018 21:34:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >And a 20 foot piece of cat5 replaced the radio dongle.
>
> My Linux PC and my DVB-T2 receiver are connected by Cat.5e, only an
> iPad is using wireless, but the router's transmitting power is reduced
> to 6% of 100 mW for 2.4 GHz, IOW it should be 6 mW. 5 GHz is disabled,
> the minimum for 5 GHz would be 6% of 200 mW or 6% of 1000 mW. If
> possible I would reduce transmitting power to less than 6 mW. Likely
> somebody in front of the house and surrounding neighbours still get a
> weak signal.

Because the fcc has mandated that power level considerations here in the 
hew ess aye be untouchable by the user, and has set the limits in that 
block of code is a black box without any knobs. So we can't turn them 
down, only off.

I've done some scans of the 2.4 band, and there are 7 or 8 useable 
signals coming in on the pi 3b which is in the garage, with vinyl siding 
although the garage door right in the pi's face is alu. The house here 
is older, and has alu siding which is several db of shielding but I can 
still find at least 4 signals that might be usable. And this is not a 
technically trained neighborhood.

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