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Hi Francisco,

Firstly, don't drop the mailing list CC, I do _not_ do private support.

Secondly, don't top post.

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Francisco Cuesta <ndarkness@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Julian,
>
> First of all thanks for replying.
>
> Concerning to the call of iw to the API in an openwrt system do you
> know if this is the same? I mean, I have tried to find some file
> called nl80211  but without succeeding.

nl80211 is an interface with the kernel, it's not a file. It's
essentially commands to control Wifi (802.11) interfaces over NetLink.

All 'iw' commands, regardless of the Linux distribution or whatever use nl80211.

> On the other hand, I'm working with openwrt and I was aware about the
> eemprom stuff, indeed, I have enabled an openwrt feature that allows
> you to force the atheros eemprom to take into account the regulatory
> domain set by the user, but event though if I set Japan I don't see an
> update on iw list channels. Is that due to the fact that my card
> doesn't support such a frequency?

That is most likely the case.

Thanks,

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