On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 03:58:37PM +0100, Rostyslav Khudolii wrote: > As far as I know, AR6003 (according to the specs) supports both > 802.11a and 802.11an modes and the difference between those to, when > it comes to operating frequencies, is actually a set of 38/42/46 > channels, which are supported as primary by 802.11a and are not by > 802.11n. Why would you use channels 38, 42, and 46 (and 34 which would also be in this set)? Those are the old 5 GHz channels that were initially defined for Japan, but are not used anymore. There is no difference here for 802.11a between 802.11n (well, apart from 802.11n being new enough that it may have actually been published only after the channel definitions in Japan had already happened). > So, my question is: would it be feasible to just remove those channels > from the supported list and forget about 802.11a like it's done in > ath10? The only reason for listing channels 34, 38, 42, and 46 is for old device compatibility in products sold in Japan. That said, those channels have been removed from new products long time ago, so it might make sense to remove them from ath6kl as well. If someone has a valid use case for them, a custom patch could be used instead. In any case, support for such channels would depend on the full network stack both above and below the driver supporting them and that's unlikely to be the case nowadays. > If no - how do I enable 802.11a then? By using currently define channels (36, 40, 44, ..). -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA _______________________________________________ ath6kl mailing list ath6kl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/ath6kl
