Am Montag, 12. Januar 2009 schrieb Nick Kossifidis: > 2009/1/12 Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > At least one ar5211 card (GIGABYTE GN-WLMA101, 168c:0012 subsystem > > 1458:e800) reports itself as 11g capable which seems to be a bug in the > > eeprom. initvals.c assumes that ar5211 is only 11b capable and thus refuses > > to initialize this card. Hence this patch changes the probing for 11g > > capabilities to discard 11g capabilities for ar5211 cards which allows this > > specific card to work fine in 11b and 11a modes. > > > > Signed-off-by: Helmut Schaa <helmut.schaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > --- > > > > Is anybody aware of 11g-capable ar5211 cards which would be limited by > > this patch? [...] > This should be O.K. for now but i think AR5211 supports the so called > "pureg" mode which means ofdm only g (no cck headers etc). Sounds reasonable, yes. > It seems > radio (RF5111) supports g mode (it can be found on AR5212 abg cards) I guess you mean RF2111, right? RF5111 should be 11a. I've just found a product sheet at [1] that states that the RF2111 supports "802.11g draft standard". I guess that's exactly what you've described as "pureg" mode. Thanks, Helmut [1] ftp://ftp.riss-telecom.ru/pub/wireless/doc/atheros/AR5001X.pdf -- 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
