From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleksij Rempel Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 06:41:27 +0200 Subject: [ath9k-devel] AR9280 AP mode - 5GHz band In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53BCC7F7.6030603@rempel-privat.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org Am 08.07.2014 13:37, schrieb Janusz Dziedzic: > On 8 July 2014 08:20, Hosam Hittini wrote: >> Hello there, >> >> I have this dual band wireless adapter >> https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-dual-band-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-nusbdb >> and it uses AR9280 chipset for the 5GHz communication >> It?s using ath9k driver; I have Ubuntu 13.10 running 3.11 kernel and the >> adapter worked out of the box >> I?m using hostapd to configure the adapter as a software AP >> When I tried to configure the adapter as an AP on the 2.4GHz channels it >> worked fine >> When tried the 5GHz channels it gives me the following error >> >> channel [1] (40) is disabled for use in AP mode, flags: 0x77 >> wlan1: IEEE 802.11 Configured channel (40) not found from the channel list >> of current mode (2) IEEE 802.11a >> wlan1: IEEE 802.11 Hardware does not support configured channel >> >> In addition, iw list command shows that the 5GHz channels have the ?passive >> scanning? and ?no IBSS? flags >> I can associate with an AP on the 5GHz though >> How to solve that > > You can try this - works fine with my 9280 > Compile your kernel with options: > CONFIG_ATH_REG_DYNAMIC_USER_REG_HINTS=y > CONFIG_ATH_REG_DYNAMIC_USER_CERT_TESTING=y > > Next set country, eg. iw reg set US > And check channels available (iw list). You should get 36-48 and > 149-165 available. > If available, next you can check hostapd. > > DFS channels should works as well when you enable DFS: > CONFIG_ATH9K_DFS_CERTIFIED required He is not using ath9k driver. It is about ath9k_htc :) -- Regards, Oleksij -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 278 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.ath9k.org/pipermail/ath9k-devel/attachments/20140709/87a26288/attachment.pgp