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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
	Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com>,
	Vincent C Jones <v.jones@networkingunlimited.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: iwl4965 - wpa_supplicant can't see 5Ghz frequencies - 2.6.26-rc1 kernel
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 14:50:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1211482203.18709.9.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1211481249.28022.15.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 14:34 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> But what's the best fix to the supplicant?  It could just parse A-band
> channels and where the numbers overlap, assume B/G band.  Or, it could
> be patched to prefer FREQ+frequency over FREQ+channel if it received
> both.  That's probably the best solution.

I checked the wpa_supplicant sources and I see that all it needs is the
frequency.  All that needs to be done is not to allow channels
(everything below, say, 10000) overwrite existing frequency data.
That's the second approach.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-22 18:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-09 16:57 iwl4965 - wpa_supplicant can't see 5Ghz frequencies - 2.6.26-rc1 kernel Vincent C Jones
2008-05-09 21:23 ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-09 23:41   ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-10  0:12     ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-10  2:36       ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-10 14:39       ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-10 15:46         ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-10 18:56           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-10 21:48             ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-10 22:06               ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-11  2:49                 ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-12 16:50                   ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-12 18:37                     ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-22 16:53                       ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-22 17:42                         ` Dann Church
2008-05-22 17:54                           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-24 11:03                             ` Dann Church
2008-05-22 17:56                         ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-22 17:58                           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-22 18:34                           ` Dan Williams
2008-05-22 18:50                             ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
2008-05-22 19:18                               ` Dan Williams
2008-05-22 19:21                                 ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-22 18:51                             ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-22 19:12                               ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-22 19:30                                 ` Dan Williams
2008-05-22 19:34                                   ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-22 20:56                                     ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-22 21:09                                       ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-22 22:07                                       ` Dan Williams
2008-05-22 18:22                         ` Dan Williams
2008-05-22 19:16                           ` Johannes Berg
2008-05-22 22:33                         ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-22 22:50                           ` Tomas Winkler
2008-05-22 23:28                             ` Vincent C Jones
2008-05-10 17:06         ` Tomas Winkler

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