Am Montag 01 März 2010 schrieb Luis R. Rodriguez: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 9:46 AM, reinette chatre > <reinette.chatre@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 06:34 -0800, Helmut Schaa wrote: > >> have there been any recent changes to the regulatory stuff, especially > >> in conjunction with iwlagn? > >> > >> Because with wireless-testing I get all 11a channels disabled by default > >> and the same for channels 12 & 13 in the g-band. > > > > This could be related to a change in the default regulatory domain. It > > used to be US, but now it is world, > > This change actually happened a while ago and the world regulatory > domain actually enables passive scanning on a lot of channels instead > of straight out disabling them. How do channels get disabled then? > > which is more restrictive. You can > > modify your regulatory domain using "iw reg set <domain>" > > For Intel, as well as with Atheros cards, cards using 'iw reg set' > would actually not yield enabling new channels, it would only disable > channels further. Right, that's what I can see here as well. However, I just noticed in dmesg: iwlagn 0000:10:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 19 802.11a channels So it seems the card reports the correct set of channels but it doesn't get reflected in cfg80211. Thanks, Helmut -- 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
