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Re: [Fwd: Re: Trouble Associating with ath5k on AR5212]

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Bob Copeland wrote:
>> I also have to manually set the reg domain to US every time I load the
>> ath5k module. �I tried configuring wpa_supplicant.conf to do this
>> itself, but that doesn't seem to work. �It would be nice to have a
>> module parameter for setting this at load time.
>>     
>
> I may be wrong but I think that only works in wpa_supplicant if you
> use -Dnl80211 (instead of -Dwext).
>
> FWIW in the default world roaming domain you can still connect to most
> APs.  Besides iw/wpa_supplicant, pending patches to ath5k will set the
> default regdomain automatically based on the value stored in the eeprom.
>   
Ahh, interesting.  I didn't see nl80211 documented in the wpa_supplicant
example configs or man page. I'll give that a shot.
I seem to get much better scanning results with the region set properly,
than on the world roaming domain.

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