From: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
To: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jamey Sharp <jamey@minilop.net>
Subject: EINVAL when setting 802.11a channel in Ad-Hoc mode
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 19:51:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110817025141.GA4529@leaf> (raw)
We're trying to run 802.11a in Ad-Hoc mode. However, when we get to the
point of setting the channel, we almost always get EINVAL back from the
kernel. We ran the following series of commands:
wlan=wlan3
iwconfig $wlan mode Ad-Hoc
ifconfig $wlan up
iwconfig $wlan essid PSAS-flight-computer
iwconfig $wlan channel 36
The channel command almost always got back an EINVAL. This occurred on
three different wifi chipsets: a USB ar9170 (with either carl9170 or the
older ar9170usb driver), a USB rt2800usb, and iwlwifi with a Lenovo
X220. In the former two cases, it occurs on both x86 (the
aforementioned X220) and powerpc (an MPC5200).
More strangely, the channel command would *sometimes* successfully set
the channel without error.
Have we done something wrong with the sequence of commands above? Why
might we get EINVAL when setting a valid channel? What next steps
should we take to debug this?
Currently about to compile in function_graph tracing and start walking
through the execution of SIOCSIWFREQ looking for what generates the
EINVAL.
- Josh Triplett
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