On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 7:21 PM, <mgreger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've run out of ideas and am hoping someone here can help. > > All I want to do is connect a client to my 5Ghz network. > > My client: > OS is Debian stable "Stretch" with sysvinit instead of systemd > Atheros AR9462 (World roaming 0x64 regdomain in EEPROM) > "iw reg set US" > "iw list" shows both 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz bands available. > "iw wlp3s0 survey dump" shows received traffic on 5Ghz bands. > > There are oodles of 5Ghz AP's within range, but scans (including passive scans) reveal only 2.4Ghz networks. My only guess was that it won't transmit due to regulatory requirements, but I cannot make it work. > > What I've tried: > Running with and without CRDA > Running latest mainline kernel > Hacking around on the ath9k driver and nl80211 to remove all regulatory enforcement. > > Nothing works and I'm pulling my hair out. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hi, I try to give some initial help. The linux-wireless driver is supported by ath9k driver see [1] and [2]. Unfortunately, you have not sent any log-files at least your dmesg-log. No output of the above userspace commands or userspace-tools versions. No information to VendorID/ProductID (PCI, USB, whatever). It's not clear to me if this is a kernelspace (ath9k-driver) or userspace (CRDA/regulatory) problem. How should someone help you effectively? The linux-wireless wiki has somne informations on how to debug Atheros/Qualcomm ath9k-driver, see [3]. As a debianist I say try Linux v4.16 Debian packages from stretch-backports (and maybe a higher version of wireless-regdb). Try to ask questions the smart way [4] :-). Hope this helps. Regards, - Sedat - [1] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k [2] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k/devices [3] https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/drivers/ath9k/debug [4] http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
