On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 12:25:48PM -0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > The problem here is not this though the problem here is the case > > where people are using 2.6.28 without no iw or crda *and* have more > > than two cards :) > > it might sound like an unlikely case and it will most likely only be the > A-band usage anyway, but it is a valid case. People with old laptops do > use newer wireless cards in PCMCIA or USB form factor to get better WiFi > performance and/or stability. In some cases you can just replace your > internal card, but with the switch from MiniPCI to half-MiniPCI this is > not as likely anymore. So the use of a second external card becomes more > likely. Right, and the proposed solution I had was to use an intersection between two regulatory domains. This solution just doesn't currently work well with Intel cards due to the capability <-> regulatory one to one mapping. > I am still for the first card wins concept when no CRDA is present or > the userspace just doesn't know about setting the regulatory domain. > However we should have it separated for each band to not lock some > people out who have no clue on why they now loose the 5 GHz band. Sure. Luis -- 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
