Hi Jouni, Thank you for your reply. I don't really have to use them, but their presence in the driver implies that they can be used since they're populated via cfg80211 subsystem to the userspace (wpa_supplicant, iw). So, I guess, the best solution is to just remove them from ath6kl? On 7 March 2017 at 17:07, Malinen, Jouni <jouni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
