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From: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43: cannot set channel to 12
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 14:50:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4716676C.5010907@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jey7e1leh0.fsf@sykes.suse.de>

Andreas Schwab wrote:
> The b43 driver in current wireless-2.6 cannot set the channel to 12:
> 
> # iwconfig wlan0 chan 12
> Error for wireless request "Set Frequency" (8B04) :
>     SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument
> 
> iwlist still lists the APs on channels 12 and 13.
> 
> This is a 4318 in a iBook G4, using firmware version 410.2160.

This is not a b43 problem. The standard loading of mac80211 sets an FCC regulatory domain, i.e. b/g
channels 1-11. You need to load mac80211 with a parameter of 'ieee80211_regdom=64'. That will allow
b/g channels 1-13. Technically, it sets the regulatory domain to Japan, but channel 14 is not allowed.

Larry

  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-17 19:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-17 19:37 b43: cannot set channel to 12 Andreas Schwab
2007-10-17 19:50 ` Larry Finger [this message]
2007-10-21 11:40   ` Andreas Schwab
2007-10-21 14:34     ` Larry Finger
2007-10-18 13:58 ` Michael Buesch

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