From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis R. Rodriguez Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 08:55:27 -0800 Subject: [ath9k-devel] 5 MHz and 10 MHz channel bandwidth available on any Atheros agn-Card? In-Reply-To: <007b01ca7d67$498cd3f0$dca67bd0$@Budde@gmx.net> References: <007b01ca7d67$498cd3f0$dca67bd0$@Budde@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20091215165527.GA2451@tux> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org 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