On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 01:30:35PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > I'm using an ath9k NIC on a slightly hacked 2.6.34 kernel, Fedora 13 32-bit. > I'm using the stock 'iw' command that comes with Fedora 13. > > As far as I can tell, the results of 'iw reg get' > are funky: > > [root@atom lanforge]# iw reg get > country 98: > (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20) > (5170 - 5250 @ 20), (N/A, 17) > (5250 - 5330 @ 20), (N/A, 18), DFS > > What is '98'? It doesn't correspond to anything I can find > in the numeric or ascii lists of country codes. > > Also, setting the domain doesn't seem to do anything, although > there are no errors: > > [root@atom lanforge]# iw reg get > country 98: > (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20) > (5170 - 5250 @ 20), (N/A, 17) > (5250 - 5330 @ 20), (N/A, 18), DFS > [root@atom lanforge]# iw reg set US > [root@atom lanforge]# iw reg get > country 98: > (2402 - 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20) > (5170 - 5250 @ 20), (N/A, 17) > (5250 - 5330 @ 20), (N/A, 18), DFS > > Anyone know if this is *supposed* to work? The ath9k driver is setting its own regulatory restrictions based on its EEPROM. Setting the domain from userland can only further restrict the regulatory settings. The '98' value represents a synthesized regulatory domain, based on the intersection of the available source of regulatory information (which can include the EEPROM, the userland setting, and a country IE from your AP). Hth! John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx might be all we have. Be ready. -- 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
