[ath9k-devel] 5 MHz and 10 MHz channel bandwidth available on any Atheros agn-Card?

[Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 01:16:29AM -0800, Robert Budde wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 11:19:47AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:06:53AM -0800, Nick Lee - Unex wrote:
> > > <--some incoherent deductions-->
> > > no AR9xxx wifi card can support 10MHz bandwidth now.
> >
> > Let me clarify on your inaccurate deliberations. Harware-wise AR5416 can support
> > 5 / 10 MHz channels, but this is not supported through software. The newer
> > family of chipsets AR9280, AR2985, AR9287 all do not support 5 / 10 MHz channels
> > either in harware or software. So it is fair to say ath9k will not support
> > 5 MHz / 10 MHz channels.
> >
> >   Luis
> 
> Hello,
> 
> does that mean the AR9280 is not compliant with IEEE 802.11j as stated
> in the product bulletin (http://www.atheros.com/pt/bulletins/AR9280Bulletin.pdf)?

802.11j seems to be acceptable with 20 MHz, and anyway I do not put out
marketing materials, I'm just a developer and figured the above would
be useful to other developers so they don't waste time trying to get
5 / 10 MHz working on ath9k as it will just not be supported.

  Luis