Re: hti->control_chan is 15??

[Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>]

On 01/28/2011 04:48 PM, Daniel Halperin wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Ben Greear<greearb@candelatech.com>  wrote:
>> My AP is an off-the-shelf Netgear:
>> WNDR3700
>>
>> It's only rate configuration option is '300Mbps', which appears to
>> turn on HT40.
>>
>> It is configured for channel 10 (for the packet capture) and actually
>> passes traffic there.  It's just this HT Info thing with (primary-channel ==
>> (real_channel + 4))
>> that seems wrong.  Note that when I had the channel set to 11, it was
>> reporting
>> 15 for the primary channel in the HT info.
>>
>> Looks like a bug in that AP to me...but would be nice if there were a way to
>> work around it, in case others have similar issues.
>
> Set it to channel 6, then?

It will still fail the control_chan test and so HT will not be enabled.

That's the symptom I've been chasing all day...just turns out that
the cause, for once, appears to not be my system :)

I'll look into adding a hack to allow HT to be enabled
if the channel is off-by-4.

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
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