On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 23:33 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Thu, 2012-12-13 at 14:28 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > Oops, forgot to add Michael, adding him now. > > > > Michael, just a sanity check for you. What Johannes is saying is that > > regulatory wise for the 2.4 GHz band on channels 1-11 and on 5 GHz on > > non DFS channels where we never initiate radiation we don't have a > > specific bandwidth restriction. Are you aware of any country > > restricting any 5 GHz world roaming frequency (non DFS) or channel > > 1-11 on 2.4 GHz in terms of bandwidth used? > > This is world roaming, so we never use any of the 5 GHz channels unless > we've heard a beacon. If we hear beacons on consecutive (non-DFS) > channels (say 36,40,44,48) we would even enable them and then allow > using 80 MHz there. We could try to prevent this in some way I guess, > but it'd be more complex, and I'm not sure it's needed. However, I think > we need to be able to use 80 MHz in world roaming situations, which the > bandwidth setting currently prevents. Btw, soon enough I'll need to update the regdb for VHT, so if anyone has any worldwide data on 80/160 MHz restrictions I'd love to know about it. johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
