From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com ([209.85.200.175]:29228 "EHLO wf-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754813AbZBLCQk (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:16:40 -0500 Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 28so520420wfa.4 for ; Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:16:39 -0800 (PST) From: Sujith Message-ID: <18835.34347.918619.481986@gargle.gargle.HOWL> (sfid-20090212_031644_775315_532EB7B9) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:45:07 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: mementux , Michael Green , ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ath9k-devel] Radar Detection and DFS status In-Reply-To: <43e72e890902111341l36bd40c8o9d54515e8b06e603@mail.gmail.com> References: <2d14e2ca0902110900r7f0b84e4k7be81827187c434@mail.gmail.com> <43e72e890902111341l36bd40c8o9d54515e8b06e603@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > mac80211 or ath9k does not yet have radar detection support so > therefore no mac80211 driver will allow you to use any beaconing mode > (AP | IBSS | Mesh) mode on DFS channels yet. > > Note that not all 5 GHz channels require radar detection though so you > could try using one of the non-DFS channels. Check 'iw list' for that. > > ath9k STA should work with DFS but I didn't work on that myself so > will leave someone else to comment on that. Yep, STA mode should work fine, since 802.11h CSA support was added to mac80211 recently. Sujith -- http://sujith-m.blogspot.com