From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: p4u <hakais@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IBSS channel support
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 10:54:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311954873.3084.2.camel@dcbw.foobar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E32D144.6050304@gmail.com>
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 17:27 +0200, p4u wrote:
> Hi,
> This is my first mail to this list, I'm Pau from Barcelona working in
> guifi.net (wireless community)
> First of all I want to say thank you guys for your amazing job :-)
>
> Now, I have a little question. Using command "iw phy phy0 info" I can
> see that IBSS mode is only avaiable in some channels for 5ghz spectrum.
> I have been looking for information about it, but I cannot find from
> what depends if some channel can by used in IBSS mode or not. So I think
> it depends on the driver and on the regdomain, is it right?
Yes.
> Also I'm working in some scripts, and I need to know if a channel has
> IBSS support or not. The only way I found is with iw command, but pharse
> this data is very dirty. Furthermore I can read in the end of iw help:
>
> "Do NOT screenscrape this tool, we don't consider its output stable."
>
> So I need another way to get this information. Any idea?
Couldn't you use the CRDA database? That's got bits that indicate
whether or not some channels allow IBSS in your domain or not.
http://wireless.kernel.org/download/wireless-regdb/
Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-29 15:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-29 15:27 IBSS channel support p4u
2011-07-29 15:54 ` Dan Williams [this message]
2011-07-29 16:07 ` p4u
2011-08-08 8:41 ` Johannes Berg
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